[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: bitstreamout-0.42j (Was: AC3 over Soundcard(live and replay))

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:23:31AM +0100, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > If the driver for your sound card supports None Audio PCM (RAW?)
> > the bitstreamout plugin opens the S/P-DIF of your sound card
> > in this mode.  Suppose you've connected a hardware decoder or
> > A/V receiver with hardware decoder to the S/P-DIF out of your
> > sound card you should hear 5.1.  Note: any hardware of software
> > decoder on/of the sound card isn't used.  You may also use the
> > program alsamixer to get familiar with the features of your sound card
> > supported by ALSA. 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you very much for your plugin and your answer!!!
> 
> unfortunately I think not, as one can see in the output of amixer:
> 
> http://ulima.unil.ch/greg/linux/Digifire_7.1/amixer
> 
> > If you have a AC3 sound track, you may also try the program
> > 
> >    http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/ac3play-0.5.2f.tar.bz2
> > 
> > which is able to play such files. Maybe you'll find some ac3
> > at http://www.diatonis.com/downloads.html.
> 
> ./ac3play /data/linux/dvb/from_beyond_the_edge_44k_256kbps.ac3
> ac3play: Unable to update the IEC958 control: No such file or directory
> ac3play: Period size not available: Invalid argument
> Segmentation fault

Downgrade your ALSA/Kernel system.

> 
> Does that mean I should forgot to have 5.1?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> 	Grégoire
> 
> PS: I have tried to post a private answer to Dr. Werner Fink but I
> received my email in return...

Hmmm .. maybe some of hosts used for mail transport are marked
as spammer.  I do (or better junkfilter) not accept mails from
such host.

      Werner


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