[MPlayer-users] Re: hwac3 with two channel AC3?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > Ok. Anything to hide this stupidity... Of course the files that don't work
> > have mp3 sound, not ac3...
> 
> Follow-up question: I recently enabled AC3 playback with an SBLive! Works
> great
> with an actual AC3 rip. However, I get the same 0x55 codec complaint when
> playing
> an MP3 movie. Forcing it with -ac mp3 works, even though it's still playing
> through the digital output on the SBLive!
> 
> So the question is... why? Why doesn't the codec recognition work in this
> case?

heh?
-ac mp3 _overrides_ your previous -ac hwac3, so it's just plain mp3 sw
decoding, nothing with ac3 passthrough.

> It's clearly not a handling problem, since the MP3 files play just fine if
> you tell mplayer which codec to use...
they also play if you don't force the hwac3 audio codec...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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