I added these informations in the wiki. Thanks Julien for the clear explanation :)
https://www.moovida.com/wiki/TipsAndTricks/AC3PassThrough Philippe Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 11:00 +0200, Julien Moutte a écrit : > I just tried this at home and it worked : > > audioconvert ! audioresample ! ffenc_ac3 ! ac3iec958 ! alsasink > > Can you check ? > > Julien > > > Matthias Saou wrote: > > Julien Moutte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> More details on this proposition. As spotted by Hadley Rich Moovida is > >> not able to build a bin out of this config. You can work this around > >> like that : > >> > >> set audio_sink to gconfaudiosink > >> > >> Then open gstreamer-properties from a terminal. > >> > >> In the Audio output select custom and then paste this in there : > >> > >> ffenc_ac3 ! ac3iec958 ! alsasink device=spdif > >> > >> You can press the test button to make sure this works with a sine tone > >> (mind your ears...). > >> > >> This should work fine. > >> > > > > I've made that change, but when I press the test button, I just don't > > hear anything. No errors are reported, though. I tried removing my > > ~/.asoundrc but same result. If I then try Moovida with the > > gconfaudiosink output, video playback hangs on "Buffering...". > > > > I'll continue fiddling, but it's not looking very good so far... > > > > Matthias > >
