Bug#278133: totem: AC3 passthrough does not work

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:09 +0200, Lo=C3=AFc Minier wrote:
> Andre Heynatz <vetasana@gmx.de> - Mon, Oct 25, 2004:
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> > Choosing the Audio output type "AC3 Passthrough" only outputs Stereo =
(my=20
> > AV amplifier says "ProLogic II"). If I start mplayer with suitable=20
> > 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
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>  You're using "totem-xine" which relies on libxine1 to do such things a=
s
>  output to an alsa driver.
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>  I have no idea wether libxine also reads .xine, but you can try
>  "audio.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through" in .xine/config.  If that
>  doens't work with totem-xine, please try with xine alone.

For Totem, the config is in ~/.gnome2/totem_config. You might want to
try with xine-ui as Loic was explaining.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>=20
Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation
thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.=20