[MPlayer-users] ac3 over dvb card?

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Sunday 16 March 2008 10:51:58 Halim Sahin ha scritto:
> 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?
> 

my card and the only person that has access to the firmware sources
say otherwise. Can you point me to a doc explaining how VDR passes
along AC3 and in what conditions?