[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer & DD5.1 via SPDIF - I have only DD2.0: why ?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 22:17, Sasza wrote:
[...]
> I start to think: what particular is in xine onfig, that it is working OK.
> 
> My xine is setup to:
> o Set dev used for mono output (device.alsa_default_device) to iec958.
> o Set dev used for stereo output (device.alsa_front_device) to iec958.
> o Set dev used for 5.1-channel output (device.alsa_passthrough_device) 
> to iec958.
> o Ignore the other "device used for 5.1-channel output" 
> (device.alsa_surround51_device).
> o Set speaker arrangement to "Pass Through".
> 
> For
> "audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2"
> are nice criptic AESx=y settings.
> Stripping them out cause that my ampli shows mono - so in xine EAS looks 
> like crucial to output correctly DD5.1.
> 
> Maybe such setting are also require for mplayer ?
> But how to enter them ?

Try something like:
-ao alsa:device=iec958

R.

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