[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPEG to S/PDIF passthrough

[Ulion]

2008/2/7, Ilkka Karvinen <kartsan at gmail.com>:
> Hello guys, I'm new on this list. I have made a simple codec that writes
> MPEG audio frames via S/PDIF digital interface to hardware decoders.
>
> It is based on the C code I made around 2003 and ad_hwmpa and ad_hwac3
> codecs in mplayer. AC3 passthrough codec ad_hwac3 is very close to the
> idea of this MPEG codec, only some bits are changed, like data type from
> AC3 to MPEG.
>
> I have tested it and it seems to work quite well with mp3 files and video
> files with MPEG audio stream.
>
> If you would like to take a look at it, I can pass you the code. Where
> should
> I put it anyway? If there are people who could test this with their own
> hardware, that would be just perfect.
>
> The old C code is available at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ik/mpegspdif.html
> I didn't put this mplayer code there yet because I decided to ask you
> first what to do with it.

that's great, do you have hardware can decode mpeg from spdif? what's
the model of your hardware? if you can test it, I believe we can put
this feature into mplayer.
You can contact me at irc channel #mplayer-dev on freenode, or by my gmail

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Ulion