[MPlayer-users] SBLive + AC3 Potential Solution

[Aubin Paul]

Well, I seem to have a crude method to enable hardware AC3 output via 
the SBLive. If you output the stream to a file via the -dumpaudio flag, 
you can then playback the audio via the play-ac3 program included with 
the emu10k1 driver, however, since dumpaudio doesn't write to a pipe, 
it's not possible to do this in real time properly without more crude 
hacks.

However, I did notice that the ac3-iec958.* files seem to be close to 
those included with the emu10k1 package; is anyone working on porting 
these forward to dec_audio.c? Is this the right mailing list to ask?

Second, will fixing the AC3 output fix the A-V sync problems when using 
hwac3 now?

On the flipside, is it possible to write a plugin that sends the audio 
to a pipe or to an external program, which may make it easier to keep 
the AC3 synced with the emu10k1 driver development.

Thanks for any help,

Aubin