[MPlayer-users] problem with ac3 playback

[Corey Hickey]

Dave Alden wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:15:27PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> 
>>AC3 passthrough works fine for me with my SBLive. Please post the _full_
>>output of `mplayer -v -ac hwac3 troll.avi' so we can see what's going
>>on.
> 
> 
> Sure - sorry for not including it before.
> 
> ...dave
[SNIP]
> audio_setup: frags:  16/16  (4096 bytes/frag)  free:  65536
> AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch AC3 (1 bps)
> AO: Description: OSS/ioctl audio output
> AO: Author: A'rpi
[SNIP]

Looks like you're using oss audio output (either from creative's drivers
or alsa oss emulation). Try loading the alsa drivers, if you haven't
already, and add '-ao alsa9' to your mplayer command.

If that works, you can add ao=alsa9 to your mplayer config file.

-Corey