Hi there,
well, I haven't used softdevice anymore for a long time, because I had some
strange video issues (only black screen with OSD, no video), and after I
decided to start with a fresh new system on my VDR machine, now I'm giving
vdr-1.7.7 a try, with the plugins that work already with it, softdevice
being one of them.
I tried this with softdevice-0.5.0.20090218 (as packaged in gentoo) and
CVS,
and my problem is that my external amplifier hooked up via optical SPDIF
detects no signal when switching to AC3 audio tracks of channels or
recordings. This works however when playing a video file with an AC3 track
in fbxine for example. I mostly copied over the settings from my old
system,
where even this ac3 passtrhrough with softdevice used to work. Here are
some
settings and outputs that might be relevant:
In /etc/vdr/setup.conf, I have:
CurrentDolby = 1
DolbyTransferFix = 0 # don't know what this does, there is no difference
UseDolbyDigital = 1
UseDolbyInRecordings = 1
softdevice.AC3Mode = 1 # should be passthrough, right?
'aplay -l' shows:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 0: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI
DAC/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 1: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI 2nd
DAC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 2: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI
IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
'aplay -L' shows:
front:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Front speakers
rear:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Rear speakers
surround40:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
iec958:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
And the most important, the parameters given to the softdevice plugin:
'--plugin=softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,2#'
I have to mention that normal mpeg audio is decoded and sent as PCM to the
SPDIF, only AC3 and only with vdr softdevice is the problem. I tried hw:0,0
and hw:0,1 as well, but no sound. How to deal with this, did I miss
something?
Lucian
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