Hi, This question is probably off-topic, for which I apologise. However, I wonder if anyone can help me with getting AC3 sound over DVB-T? I want to pass it out to S/PDIF, not decode it in software.
It seems that Xine can do AC3 passthrough over S/PDIF, though I never got any sound out when I tried it. I get stereo sound (PCM) over S/PDIF ok. I suspect that its AC3 stuff has been only tested with DVD. MPlayer can supposedly do it too. I tried it, but it segfaults almost immediately on the station with AC3 sound. (I just put the AC3 PID in place of the audio PID in channels.conf.) Once it got as far as the amp detecting "Dolby Digital 2/0", then crashed, but never again. It seems like MythTV should also do it, but I've had even less luck with that, so I thought I'd get Xine or MPlayer working firt. >From my Googling, it seems that AC3 is carried differently on DVB versus ATSC. I wonder how it is carried on DVD? I wonder if Xine can only do ATSC (or DVD), and not DVB.. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
