Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2009-06-02, wto o godzinie 21:55 +0200, Matthias Saou pisze: > > Basically, I've got an amplifier which decodes AC3 and DTS, and > > xine, mplayer and vlc all send it raw AC3 and DTS streams just > > fine. But Moovida doesn't, and Totem (with the gstreamer backend) > > doesn't either, > > nor does it keep the "AC3 passthrough" option from its preferences > > when > > I choose it (it always reverts to "Stereo"). > > I suspect you have Pulseaudio running which does not allow > passthrough, so Totem reverts to stereo. If you'd use direct Alsa (use > gnome-sound-properties to select audio output for movie players or > just kill pulseaudio) Totem should pass AC3 through when possible (I > never tried DTS, there's no such option in Totem, so I'd suspect > no...).
I had pulseaudio running, yes, but gnome-sound-properties had all outputs set to Alsa instead of the default Pulseaudio and my ~/.asoundrc should be correct. Killing pulseaudio and trying again made no difference. > > Is it not currently possible to use AC3/DTS passthrough with > > Moovida??? > > Unfortunately no, there's no code for that ATM. > > Actually IMO gstreamer's settings (gnome-sound-properties or > gstreamer-properties) should be responsible for that - regardless of > the application playing it (unless it'd explicitly forbid that). If I > were you I'd see if there's a bug for that and file one if there > isn't. I couldn't agree more, but this doesn't seem currently possible. Maybe there's some magic configuration which already forces the use of decodebin2 or something like that? I'm realizing that nautilus + gmplayer + xine + audacious has been my "Media Center" for quite a long time now, which is quite sad when I think of it. Matthias
