Hi,
I was searching the forum on this but I couldn't find a conclusive answer.
What is the status on ac3 and DTS passthrough support?
I use spdif exclusively and more or less all my movies are ac3, so I would like to know this before I install
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
phunqe
Status of ac3/dts passthrough support
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Damn. Thanks for the info however
EDIT:
I looked around on the net a bit regarding ALSA and ac3 passthrough.
I'm not so familiar with alsa and mplayer specifics, but it seems to be working on PCs. Is this a specific soundcard problem (i.e the "soundcard" in the xbox)?
I've seen some solutions with the ac3dec alsa tools and also a specific mplayer commandline:
mplayer -ao alsa[version]:spdif -ac hwac3 somemovie.avi
EDIT:
I looked around on the net a bit regarding ALSA and ac3 passthrough.
I'm not so familiar with alsa and mplayer specifics, but it seems to be working on PCs. Is this a specific soundcard problem (i.e the "soundcard" in the xbox)?
I've seen some solutions with the ac3dec alsa tools and also a specific mplayer commandline:
mplayer -ao alsa[version]:spdif -ac hwac3 somemovie.avi