[Mplayer-dvb] Mplayer-0.90pre10 and hwac3?

[Steffen Barszus]

On Saturday 30 November 2002 14:16, Stefan.Hagendorn at lindy.cc wrote:
> Arpi is right !!!
>
> The dvb-s can't do hardware AC3 passthrought only PCM Output !!! But once
> the AC3overDVB feature was introduce for VDR someone implemented this into
> mplayer too. In fact it's AC3 in PCM Frames ecapsulation made in Software
> and send as PCM Stream to the DVB-S. But there is one thing. The DVB-S
> cant's set the right DATA or RAW Bit in the PCM Frames, resulting in some
> receivers don't accept this Stream as AC3 in PCM .. Those Receiver show an
> incoming AC3 Stream but don't decode it.

Anyway. As more than one people seems to use this thing , and there are really 
forgiving ac3-amplifier it would be better to keep that feature, wouldn't it 
?

2 further suggestions a littlebit OT to this thread:

- NEWSTRUCT/HEAD is the main interface now, could mplayer adress that ? there 
are severel patches out to correct this, couldn't they be integrated (maybe 
some ifdefs?)

- mplayer seems to not to be able to find AC3 in DVB-recordings

Greets

Steffen