[MPlayer-users] Can mplayer bitstream HD audio (DTS DH MA/Dolby TrueHD) over HDMI?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> W dniu 06.04.2014 08:56, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > is mplayer capable of bitstreaming HD audio over HDMI?I was trying to
> > find information about this yesterday and it seems ffmpeg can do this
> > since 2010 [1]. When I tried using -ac hwac3 with a file with DTS HD MA
> > soundtrack, the AVR was only receiving DTS core. This was with mplayer
> > svn, ffmpeg-2.1 and nvidia binary drivers on Fedora 20.
> > Thank you for your support in advance.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Julian
> > 
> > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/121073
> Hello,
> 
> I have now tried -afm spdif which does not work either:
> 
> Trying to force audio codec driver family spdif...
> Opening audio decoder: [spdif] libavformat/spdifenc audio pass-through
> decoder.
> AUDIO: 192000 Hz, 8 ch, iec61937le, 768.0 kbit/3.12% (ratio: 96000->3072000)
> Selected audio codec: [spdifdts] afm: spdif (libavformat/spdifenc DTS
> pass-through decoder)
> ==========================================================================
> [format] Sample format little-endian IEC61937 not yet supported
> Error at audio filter chain pre-init!

More complete output and adding the -v option would help.
Something wants to do audio processing/conversion, which of course
cannot work if the audio is supposed to be compressed.