[MPlayer-users] AC3 passthrough on SB Live! 5.1, audio skips

[Marcus Blomenkamp]

Frederik Klama wrote:

> 
> I tried it but it (mapping /dev/adsp to device 0,3) never seems to work. As I 


What exactly goes wrong? Are you sure that 'hw:0,3' is correct? Cards I 
touched, had their digital device attached to 'hw:0,2'.

 > said, it ONLY works when I use "iec958:AES=0x87" as the driver option 
 > of alsa. I tried everything from "hw:0,0" to "hw:0,25", nothing. :(

Under '/proc/asound/card0' you can see which devices are available in 
what direction, eg: pcm0p pcm2c (p,c := playback,capture)

Please tell exactly what goes wrong: 'no sound' or 'format not 
available' etc. And for the snd-pcm-oss options, don't forget to reload 
the modules. For testing you can watch the usage count of each device, 
eg: 'cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm2p/info'

Marcus