[xine-devel] AC3 Direct out for the SB Live in Xine.

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

Hello
Here is a version of the audio_oss_out.c for xine_lib which works for AC3
direct out on my SB Live Player 1024.
To get it to work, you need to get the latest emu10k1 CVS from
http://opensource.creative.com/cvs.html
This provides an OSS driver interface with a special AC3 direct mode.
To enable the AC3 direct mode on the emu10k1 driver, one has to run "make
load" in the play_ac3 subdirectory of the emu10k1 CVS.
You can then output AC3 direct out of the SPDIF socket on the SB Live.
I would like feedback as to whether this works on other makes of sound card
using just the standard OSS interface.

I have had to disable all the delay and frame drop audio code. If anyone has
some good ideas on how to implement these when in AC3 direct mode, it would
be helpfull.

Cheers
James