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[linux-dvb] Re: Questions about dvdplayer
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:07:46PM +0100, Ralph Metzler wrote:
> > > But can you get the AC3 stream (e.g. from Pro7) out of the spdif connector?
> > > I haven't yet connected my dvb-s to my dd receiver so I have no
> > > experience with that.
> >
> > As stated by Ralph Metzler this is not possible due to some hardware
> > related limitations. I guess the data forwarder isn't able to handle ac3
> > streams. Ralph: is that true?
>
> Yes, that's correct.
> To handle AC3 one would have to have control over the complete output
> stream to create the appropriate headers.
> But on the current hardware you cannot do that. You can only send PCM
> data.
So the DVB-S can't do it, but can you get the AC3 stream and send it to
a soundcard? Alsa can output AC3 streams with Trident and other cards.
--
Andreas Wohlfeld -- Germany
agw@eiberg.de
andreas.wohlfeld@uni-bochum.de
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