On 5/25/08, Rick W. Chen <stuffcorpse at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. I sort of have this working. I had a lot of trouble with seg faults originally but I recompiled libasound2 and installed it and they went away. So how do you run speaker-test with this config so that I can check if it is working? What is the device name? This should be way easier to set up. Everyone who runs a SPDIF cable into their stereo needs it. > > > -- > Rick > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
