Matthias, Can you try in moovida.conf to set the audio_sink option to:
"ac3iec958 ! alsasink device=spdif" ? Philippe Le mardi 02 juin 2009 à 23:21 +0200, Matthias Saou a écrit : > 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
