Bug#278133: totem: AC3 passthrough does not work

[Andre Heynatz]

Package: totem
Version: 0.99.16-1
Severity: normal

I want to watch a DVD having an audio track in "Dolby Digital 5.1".
My soundcard is a "Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96" and needs the ice1712 
driver (ALSA). I have configured a default ALSA device so that SPDIF 
output is chosen automatically even if the application does not allow 
such configuration.

Choosing the Audio output type "AC3 Passthrough" only outputs Stereo (my 
AV amplifier says "ProLogic II"). If I start mplayer with suitable 
settings, a Dolby Digital signal is sent to the amplifier as expected:

mplayer -vo xv -ao alsa -ac hwac3 -fs dvd://1
or gmplayer with the same options

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages totem depends on:
ii  totem-xine                    0.99.16-1  A simple media player for the Gnom

-- debconf information:
* totem/thumbnailer: false