Jon Smirl said the following on 25/05/08 08:59: > After wondering for few hours how my stereo was supporting 5.1 sound > over SPDIF which I thought was only a stereo connection, I discovered > AC3 passthrough over SPDIF. > > I see various references to this in Google, is this supported yet? Is > there a good write up on how to do it? > I followed this guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4451132. It uses alsa to encode ac3 on the fly for everything except actual ac3 or dts audio, which are passthrough. -- Rick
