Re: [xine-devel] S/PDIF digital AC3/DTS not working in xine-lib-1-rc0a

[Christopher S H. <zen...@ze...>]

Well I am experiencing a similar problem (on similar hw) noticed the
source has a parameter for config which may fix my problem
oss_pass_through_bug.  Unfortunately this didn't work for me and I still
experienced the same problems.

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:57, Henning Haaland Kulander wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I downloaded xine-lib-1-rc0, and subsequently rc0a to test it on my
> machine. It works fine with normal analog sound output, but digital
> sound output only makes noise, kind of a tch-tch-tch effect.. :)
> 
> I also get this error message in console:
> ----------------------------------------
> audio_oss_out: unsupported mode 00000000
> audio_oss_out: AC3 SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed. 16. Using alternative.
> load_plugins: plugin dxr3-spudec failed to instantiate itself.
> libspudec:init_plugin called
> audio_oss_out: AC3 SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed. 16. Using alternative.
> 
> 
> Since I have never experienced this problem with the earlier xine-lib-1
> releases, I tried diffing against beta12 to see what was the difference.
> I found that line 313 is the problem. By commenting out this line I can
> get both analog and digital output. 
> 
> I'm using an SBLive 5.1 card with emu10k1-v0.20a drivers on the Linux
> 2.4.21-0.13mdk (Mandrake 9.1 standard kernel)
> 
> I attached the patch I used to fix it (not a real patch, only a patch
> between the fixed .c-file and the emacs-backup) for reference. I see
> that the changes were made by James in an attempt to enable digital
> output on systems that does not report availability of spdif. 
> 
> Other than that: Congratulations on another great release! Without doubt
> the best so far! 
-- 
Christopher S Horler <zen...@ze...>