On Mon, 05.10.09 14:30, Dave Moore (davewantsmoore at gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Everyone. I'm really sorry if this has been covered before, I've read > back through the past 6 months list history and found nothing.... and my OS > (ubuntu) and application support forums/lists are not being very helpful. > > I would like to pass digital audio completely unaltered ("bit-stream") to my > SPDIF output - Can this be done with pulseaudio? No. Not at this time. (See other mails in this thread for what is planned) If you need ac3 pass-thru then you need to bypass PA. Just make sure you are not using the SPDIF port for PA (use g-v-c or pavucontrol and make sure the sound card is notconfigured for any of the 'digital iec985' modes). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4