Re: [xine-user] More AC3 / DTS pass through questions.

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Carl Alexander wrote:
> I must say, AC3 & DTS passthrough seem to be maddeningly difficult to 
> make work. Why is "don't mollest the signal at all, pass it to my 
> reciever" so difficult?  I built my mythbox last January, and I have 
> still not gotten this problem solved.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. I have an AMD 64, Gentoo, Kernel 2.6.11, 
> ALSA 1.0.8, xine-ui 0.99.3, xine-lib 1.1.0, and an Audigy2 Platnium Pro 
> (with the external breakout box).  The best I've been able to get for 
> sound is what sounds like a rapidly cycling static buzz, or nothing at 
> all.  Regular stereo sound works fine; I cam watch myth recordings and 
> play all jukebox files. but DVDs? nothing useful.
> 
> What information would be needed to held diagnose this? I'm stumped. 
> aplay works with "spdif" or "iec958" output destination, but xine does 
> not, even with "Pass Through" as my speaker arrangement.
> 
> Help? Please.
> 
>    --- Carl
> 

Just go to the xine setup menu and select "Audio->Speaker-arrangement = 
passthru"

James