[MPlayer-users] Can't get AC3 sound with alsa and cmipci

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > work for a DVD with alsa9 and  cmipci (I have the zoltrix card with both
> > > analog and SPDIFF out)
> 
> Before I go into details and lose most of the readership :-)
> How do I fix this:
fix?

> Forcing audio codec: [ac3] afm:libac3 (AC3)
> Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available (enable it
> at compilation!)

libac3 is obsolete, and has been removed ~ half year ago.
mplayer now uses liba52, a newer (actually rewritten) version of libac3

> For the life of me, I could not see what I missed for ac3 to be compiled
> in. ./configure seemed to find everything it needed...
> What I am missing to compile this in?
nothing

> Or should I not care and stick to ac52 for playing on normal speakers?
yes

> > you will have to use -afm (don't use -ac, -afm is recommended) hwac3...
heh? nonsense.
-ac is better, -afm is just a hint

> > read DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt
why? it's for developers

> Actually, I had, but I didn't really get anywhere.
> Turns out  that the  test DVD  I tried  (5th element  superbits edition)
> apparently  is  causing problems  maybe  because  it  has DTS  sound  or
> something.
DTS is not supported (neither sw or hw decoding)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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