[MPlayer-users] ac3 over dvb card?

[Halim Sahin]

Hi,
On So, Mär 16, 2008 at 10:25:28 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il Saturday 15 March 2008 17:55:09 Halim Sahin ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can I play my vdr recordings (containing) ac3 over a fullfeatured dvb
> > card, using the sp/dif connector and mpegpes output??
> > 
> > I tried the following:
> > mplayer -ac hwac3 -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -quiet Some_files
> > 
> > This did not work as expected.
> > All help appreciated ;-)
> > 
> 
> only mp2 and lpcm are accepted by full-featured dvb cards

Are you sure?
VDR can do AC3 passthrough so I am a bit confused to hear that mplayer
does not support this?

BR.
Halim