Hi all, Not really the right place, but before I subscribe to alsa / mplayer to try and work out what was wrong I thought I would start here :)
I've got an ASRock ION-330, and I'm trying to get surround sound sorted out. It is an ION system (Nvidia 9400). I use the following mplayer command: mplayer master_and_commander.iso -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1 -ac help -channels 6 Which outputs the digital audio over the optical spdif output, which when plugged in to my surround amp quite happily switched into 5.1 mode and plays the audio correctly. However if I try to output via HDMI (hw=0.3), and then run the optical out from the TV into the surround sound amp, the amp doesn't switch into digital mode and I get lots of digital garbage noise that the amp tries to output as stereo. I get the same noise from the TV but I didn't expect the TV to actually decode and output the surround sound. Is this a setting problem in alsa / driver / mplayer? Or is this simply because the TV is doing the wrong thing? I'm inclined to believe the that TV is failing to decode the digital signal and effectively sending out stereo noise bitstream rather than just passing through the digital signal. (It's a Samsung 32inch LCD - LE32B450). If people also think this is the case then I'll contact Samsung, there is a newer firmware version which might solve the problem, but they don't give out patch notes and I don't really want to upgrade the firmware unless it will really help! Any thoughts / opinions welcome. Cheers, Steve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
