Re: spdif setup

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>]

Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 17:49, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
>>start totem, edit->preferences->audio->audio_output_type=AC3 passthru.
> 
> 
> I'm one of the Totem authors. I'm trying to give that item some meaning
> by making it work. Right now, it just works if you manually select the
> right crypto-like device string in some dark-corner config file in the
> xine backend. In the gst backend, it doesn't work at all. I'm trying to
> understand how to make it work. It's not very obvious to me.
> 
> As said, alsa 1.0.9, it's a Nvidia Nforce (the onboard type thingy)
> using the intel_8x0 driver.
> 
> Ronald
> 

AC3 is not possible with the Nvidia Nforce chipset in Linux due to lack
of datasheets

James



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