[MPlayer-users] [SOUND]: different alsa-device dending on AC3possible?

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> I'm using recently recent mplayer and I'm very happy with it. But I have 
> one
> question that would make using mplayer much simpler for me.
>
> I'm using alsa as my audio driver and the sound chip of my motherboard 
> (ALC658)
> is connected to my external receiver via toslink. Both normal pcm as well 
> as ac3
> pass-through work for me beautifully, but I need to use different alsa 
> device
> for those two, and that makes it harder for me to use mplayer with other
> programs (namely: freevo)
>
> That is: for eg. mp3 I need to use:
>
>   mplayer -ao alsa:device=spdif ...
>
> but for ac3 pass-through I can't use the "device=spdif", I have to use the
> default alsa-device, ie.
>
>   mplayer -ao alsa -ac hwac3 ...
>
> so that mplayer won't decode the ac3 stream in software but passes it on 
> for the
> receiver to decode.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour of mplayer? Can it be configured somehow to
> automatically drop the "device=spdif" when it find's out that the content 
> has an
> ac3 audio-stream?

use -ac hwac3, for all your files. (note the , )
Mplayer will first try hwac3, then other codecs.

Adrian