Joacim J wrote: >I have now looked things up a bit. I have S/PDIF (coaxial) connected >to my Harman/Kardon AVR-65, 5.1 receiver. Using Xine as player. > >When configuring Xine's audio as "Surround 5.1" I looses the speach >(center), all other sound works fine. Switching Xine's config to "Pass >through" I get a heavy cracking sound and no normal sound. Since I >want a pure digital signal to my receiver I think I should use "Pass >Through", or? > > Surround 5.1 outputs analog signals via 3 mini-jacks on your sound card, which means you're only getting 2 of the channels.
Passthrough dumps the digital signal out through the digital output and it is us to your receiver to decode it. Many receivers can autodetect the signal type. However, if you get "heavy cracking sound" when using passthrough, it means that either your receiver didn't autodetect the stream type (try setting it explicitly on the receiver) or that something in your configuration is corrupting the stream so that the receiver guesses it must be PCM. What ALSA device are you using for passthrough in xine's config? With the .asoundrc you've specified, you should use something like digital or spdif or iec958. Do not use mixed-digital. Note that you can specify a different device for passthrough and surround40 and surround51 Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
