[MPlayer-users] Pulsing static sound with -ac hwac3 in Mac OS X

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/4/07, Marcus Svensson <macke at illion.se> wrote:
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 3/4/07, Marcus Svensson <macke at illion.se> wrote:
> >> I have a problem getting AC3 passthrough to work. With the command line
> >> option -ac hwac3 set all I get is a nasty pulsing static sound.
> >>
> >> The log tells me:
> >>
> >> Forced audio codec: hwac3
> >> Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
> >> No accelerated IMDCT transform found
> >> hwac3: switched to AC3, 384000 bps, 48000 Hz
> >> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
> >> Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF)
> >> ==========================================================================
> >>
> >> AO: [macosx] 48000Hz 2ch ac3 (1 bytes per sample)
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > I don't think hwac3 is supposed to work on OSX, sorry :(

> Is there any way to get spdif passthrough to work in OS X then?
>
> It works fine in VLC.

I don't know. I don't have any audio setup that allows me to enjoy
SPDIF, so I never was able to test it. It just seems like no one
managed to port/fix hwac3 so that it works on OSX.

Guillaume