[MPlayer-users] AC3 passthrough on SB Live! 5.1, audio skips

[Felix Buenemann]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:18, Frederik Klama wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have got AC3 passthrough working with my SB Live! 5.1 card by using the
> following options: -ao alsa9:iec958:AES0=0x87 -ac hwac3
> The only problem is that while I do get AC3 passthrough I get skips in the
> sound (could be rejected packes by the AC3 decoder or something else).
> When using ac3dec supplied by alsa there are no such skips.
> Is it possible to pass the AC3 to an external application for processing
> (like ac3dec.
> I suspect there is something wrong in the implementation of the AC3
> passthrough, since it works perfectly with ac3dec.
> Has anyone encountered something like this bevore ?
> How could I try to fix this ?
can you try using -ao oss instead, I think the alsa 0.9 driver are still a bit 
buggy.

>
> Frederik Klama

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