[linux-dvb] Re: Questions about dvdplayer

[Szymon Polom <polom@convergence.de>]

Hi...

Andreas Wohlfeld wrote:

> > The AC3 stream is not decoded by the dvb card. If you have some
> > programming skills then the right way would be to decode the ac3 data
> > and to LPCM and to send it to the DVB card or to your soundlbaster
> > (downmixed to 2 channels).

> 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?

Bye... SP.
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