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

[Frederik Klama]

On Sunday 05 May 2002 12:54, Marcus Blomenkamp wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> 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)

Device 1 and 2 are just capture and 3 is "EMU10K1 FX8010" (isn't that the 
effects chip ?).

> 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'

No, it seems to output the sound to the device, the amp. even sometimes 
clicks, but no AC3 sound. :(

> Marcus
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