[vdr] Re: 6speaker onboard Dolby Digital DVD

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 16:07, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recall seeing, very briefly, some discussions about getting a sound card
> with 6 speaker output used for 5.1 decoded sound.
>
> What is the current status on this? Anyone got this to work? If yes, how?
> If not, why not :-)?

Currently, you have to use the '-a' switch with an external ac3 decoder 
(ac3dec or a52dec). I played a bit with direct vdr-to-alsa output. This 
appears to work, BUT: i could never get my SB Live 5.1! to work correctly 
with alsa drivers with all six channels, Center and rear channels are missing 
with 'surround5.1' on my setup.

I hope to resurrect the direct alsa support as a vdr-1.1 plugin. In the 
meantime is a sligthly outdated highly experimental vdr-1.0.1 patch available 
at http://grail.warp10.net/dvd/vdr-alsa.diff.bz2 (apply ontop of dvd or aio 
patch)

Andreas

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