[MPlayer-users] Re: Has anyone have a working hwac3 on an intel8x0 driver ?

[Dominique Dumont]

Fabio Papa <f.papa at mcmspa.it> writes:

>> Well, I use quite the same command:
>> mplayer -ao alsa1x:spdif -srate 48000 -ac hwac3, <videofile>
> Hi,
> I'm a little bit out of my league here, but have you already tried removing 
> that srate part? 

I think so. I'll retry to be sure.

> I'm not sure, but I think to be able to use srate mplayer 
> has to decode ac3, resample, and then it should re-encode to ac3, which is 
> not possible. And anyway, any ac3 source you have should be already 48Khz, 
> shouldn't it?

It is already 48KHz. But an AC3 stream is about 448kbps, way below the
usual 1.5Mbps rate of SPDIF, so mplayer has to do some padding (which
is rather tricky from what I read).

Thanks