On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:24 +0000, Stephen Rowles wrote: > 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).
That was my first instinct too. The Master and Commander video you were playing, is it AC3 or DTS? It's possible your TV only supports AC3 bitstreams. Sidebar: I believe most TVs won't pass the bitstream through to the receiver via SPDIF, but will rather decode it to 2 channel PCM. I was surprised to learn this after discovering that even my high end Pioneer Elite tv behaved that way. I don't suppose your AVR has an HDMI input so that you can see how your AVR behaves when receiving the same stream? FWIW, I'm also HDMI on an onboard Nvidia 9400 (with fairly recent alsa drivers to get 8 channel LPCM support), and my AVR is perfectly happy with the bitstreams that come from it. Cheers, Jason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
