[MPlayer-users] Pulsing static sound with -ac hwac3 in Mac OS X

[Marcus Svensson]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/4/07, Marcus Svensson <macke at illion.se> wrote:
>> I have a problem getting AC3 passthrough to work. With the command line
>> option -ac hwac3 set all I get is a nasty pulsing static sound.
>>
>> The log tells me:
>>
>> Forced audio codec: hwac3
>> Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
>> No accelerated IMDCT transform found
>> hwac3: switched to AC3, 384000 bps, 48000 Hz
>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
>> Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF)
>> ========================================================================== 
>>
>> AO: [macosx] 48000Hz 2ch ac3 (1 bytes per sample)
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> I don't think hwac3 is supposed to work on OSX, sorry :(
> 
> 
> Guillaume
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Is there any way to get spdif passthrough to work in OS X then?

It works fine in VLC.

/Marcus