On 09/12/2009 10:54 AM, Jim Duda wrote: > Unfortunately, although this works great for music, attempting to play mpeg > videos is a problem. When I use mplayer to play mpeg videos with 5 channel > sound, mplayer uses liba52 to decode the channels. When playing through > pulse and subsequently a52 (to go back to digital), the sound is all > choppy. > I suspect this has to do with the a52 plugin as I've read in various posts > that it may not be thread safe. I love answering my own questions ... !!! I realized a couple of bonehead things I was doing. For mplayer, I was using -ao alsa:device=default. Using -ao pulse works much better with mplayer. Same for xine. Switching from "default" to "pulseaudio" for the audio.driver works much better. > > I'm hoping I'm just confused on how best to utilize pulse with spdif > to my surround box. I want to be able to upmix my stereo to 6 channels > over digital and also be able to play my mpegs via mplayer and dvds > via xine all over digital spdif using pulse in the middle. I just > cannot seem to get it all working properly. So, my final question is: Is there anything wrong using the alsa a52 plugin to encode the pulse 6 channels to dolby digital for spdif connection to my surround box? Is there a preferred "pulse" way of doing this? Jim
