[Mplayer-dvb] Getting dvbin to work

Nico nsabbi at libero.it
Sat Aug 23 08:22:27 CEST 2003


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>Can you tell me how to get it to use the AC3 audio? I don't think I'll
>ever need it but it could be that I'll sometime watch a film transmitted
>in Dolby Digital and I have -ac hwac3 working so why not use it? Would
>even save CPU power as long as I stay on ProSieben.
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>Bye David
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I found in the archive of this ML an old thread regarding Pro7's AC3: it 
seems it's special because it lacks
a 4 byte header at the beginning of every PES packet, so your card 
*might* not recognize the stream
as  AC3, or maybe it's smart enough.

Good luck.


        Nico




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