[MPlayer-users] How to setup Alsa and mplayer for AC3 pass through with SB Live on kernel 2.6.8.1?

[Martin Bammer]

Hi,

Thanks for this info. By the way, I have successfully played an AC3-stream 
with my SB Live with ac3dec from alsa-tools package. This program works 
great. Is there anybody out there who could implement this code into mplayer?

Cheers, Martin

> Hi,
>
> > please help me. I've tried a lot but all I get out of the digital output
> > is noise. I tried mplayer with:
> > mplayer film.avi -ao alsa:mmap:device=hw#0.2 -af hwac3,a52,
>
> The hwac3 support is quite a hack. The device=hw#0.2 (which btw was
> changed to device=hw=0.2 in CVS) won't work, either it is ignored or it
> will break things (can't remember which...).
> So don't use the device= parameter with hwac3 before somebody fixes it
> (which might be anywhen inbetween soon and never :-( ).
>
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger