From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Re: Phase Reversal on Santa Cruz (cs46xx) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:12:55 +1100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3DE0D057.7030707@superbug.demon.co.uk> References: <200211170056.11190.puetzk@iastate.edu> <200211172241.14373.puetzk@iastate.edu> <3DDD75AC.9030408@cucumelo.org> <200211220935.55174.puetzk@iastate.edu> <3DDEC512.7030108@cucumelo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Benny Sjostrand Cc: Kevin Puetz , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Just as a general point to note. We are not putting the audio card into AC3 mode. We might be doing "passthru mode" or "spdif non-audio", but never just AC3 mode. I help with the "xine" (a free media player http://xine.sf.net) that can play DVDs. DVDs have AC3 audio tracks and DTS audio tracks. xine uses "spdif non-audio" and "passthru mode" when used with alsa. It can therefore output AC3 and DTS tracks to an external decoder. Summary: - AC3 is the wrong term to use. "spdif passthru" is probably a better term to use, as the current "ac3_mode" seems to imply that DTS audio might not work. Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf