Quoting "Lucian Muresan" <luci...@users.sourceforge.net>: > I tried this with softdevice-0.5.0.20090218 (as packaged in gentoo) and > CVS, > and my problem is that my external amplifier hooked up via optical SPDIF > detects no signal when switching to AC3 audio tracks of channels or > recordings. This works however when playing a video file with an AC3 track > in fbxine for example. I mostly copied over the settings from my old > system, > where even this ac3 passtrhrough with softdevice used to work. Here are > some > settings and outputs that might be relevant: > > > In /etc/vdr/setup.conf, I have: > CurrentDolby = 1 > DolbyTransferFix = 0 # don't know what this does, there is no difference > UseDolbyDigital = 1 > UseDolbyInRecordings = 1 > softdevice.AC3Mode = 1 # should be passthrough, right?
Yes. > > > 'aplay -l' shows: > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 0: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI > DAC/ADC] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 1: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI 2nd > DAC] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 2: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI > IEC958] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 So card 0 and device 2 should be ok. But the line with subdevice #0 irritates me. > > > 'aplay -L' shows: > surround51:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0 > C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC > 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers > iec958:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0 > C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC > IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output > null > Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) Discard all samples ?? > > > > And the most important, the parameters given to the softdevice plugin: > '--plugin=softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,2#' > > I have to mention that normal mpeg audio is decoded and sent as PCM to the > SPDIF, only AC3 and only with vdr softdevice is the problem. I tried hw:0,0 > and hw:0,1 as well, but no sound. How to deal with this, did I miss > something? Are there messages written to stderr which start with "ac3play" (autsch: everything written to stdout grr) ? Stefan _______________________________________________ Softdevice-devel mailing list Softdevice-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/softdevice-devel
