On 09/12/2009 10:54 AM, Jim Duda wrote:
Unfortunately, although this works great for music, attempting to play mpeg videos is a problem. When I use mplayer to play mpeg videos with 5 channel sound, mplayer uses liba52 to decode the channels. When playing through pulse and subsequently a52 (to go back to digital), the sound is all choppy. I suspect this has to do with the a52 plugin as I've read in various posts that it may not be thread safe.
I love answering my own questions ... !!! I realized a couple of bonehead things I was doing. For mplayer, I was using -ao alsa:device=default. Using -ao pulse works much better with mplayer. Same for xine. Switching from "default" to "pulseaudio" for the audio.driver works much better.
I'm hoping I'm just confused on how best to utilize pulse with spdif to my surround box. I want to be able to upmix my stereo to 6 channels over digital and also be able to play my mpegs via mplayer and dvds via xine all over digital spdif using pulse in the middle. I just cannot seem to get it all working properly.
So, my final question is: Is there anything wrong using the alsa a52 plugin to encode the pulse 6 channels to dolby digital for spdif connection to my surround box? Is there a preferred "pulse" way of doing this? Jim _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
