Re: Siemens card and SPDIF

[Lars Bensmann <lars@skynet.e.ruhr.de>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:55:11PM +0000, Peter Hofmann wrote:
> >
> > How is the card supposed to get the AC3-Stream? I guess cat mpeg2 >
> > /dev/video won't work then. But I'm certain that once this works it will
> > work with all the available tools (VDR, gVideo).
> >-- End of excerpt from Lars Bensmann
> 
> You can't send the AC3 through the video device. The AC3 stream must go to the
> audio device. There are two programs (ac3play, www.alsaplayer.org; ac3spdif,
> URL posted on this list) that use the ALSA interface to output to the audio
> device's SPDIF connection.

Yes, I understood this. Seems I didn't express myself very clearly. I was
just convinced that there would be a way to get AC3 output, if not from
the DVB card then from a digital sound card.

> There is a program called dvdplayer-0.2 (DVD playback through DVB cards, URL
> posted on this list) that splits the VOB files on DVDs into an MPEG-2 video
> stream going to /dev/video and a audio stream that is downmixed to Dolby
> Surround by the ac3dec program (www.linuxvideo.org). ac3dec has to be replaced
> by ac3play or ac3spdif to get Dolby Digital playback.

Sounds great. Thanks for the hint.

cu,
Lars

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