Are you using pure ALSA, or ALSA's OSS emulation?
It might be that the non-audio bit isn't being set correctly in
the AC3 packet header... Some decoders are fussy about this.
Some aren't.
I suspect that whoever wrote the SPDIF driver(s) for ALSA
had a receiver that locked up the rate and ignored the contents
of the AC3 packet header (i.e. it went by clocking rate and not
by header type).
-Philip
Andy Pieters wrote:
Hi all
When I play a dvd in xine, and tell xine to 'pass-thru' the audo to my dolby
souround decoder, I hear the telltale switch noise which signals xine turning
on spdif but after that no more sound is audible.
Is there any way of knowing if the spdif stream actually contains sound and
that it would mean my decoder's gone, or, that the stream is empty and the
problem is xine, or alsa related?
With kind regards
Andy
