[MPlayer-users] pulseaudio failing at passthrough

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:52:50PM +0100, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> If I play back AC3 audio with ao pulse and S/PDIF passthrough, I get

Passthrough with pulseaudio is a mess, it requires us to use a new API,
which means either detecting if it is available or dropping support
for old versions, and it requires the application to be able to switch
between PCM and passthrough at any time, which MPlayer can't.