[MPlayer-users] hwac3 vs liba52, hwdts vs libdts

[Ulion]

2007/11/16, John Karp <johnkarp at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to completely disable MPlayer's decoding of AC3/DTS codecs,
> because they are patented where I live. So I told the configure script
> to not include liba52 and libdts. But now passthrough doesn't seem to
> work. Is there a way to guarantee decoding won't happen, but allow
> passthrough?
>
> (I'm working on a front-end, so I can't make any assumptions about the
> media file being played.)
>

Why  not just add afm=hwac3 into your config file or add '-afm hwac3'
to your mplayer commandline to always use hwac3 or hwdts if possible?


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Ulion