[mythtv-users] Re: Dolby Digital and S/PDIF, sound card recomendation

[Drew Bernat]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Vassilis wrote:

> mplayer dvd://35 -dvd-device /dev/dvd -fs -zoom -vo xv
> -ac hwac3 -ao alsa9

One hint I've gotten from elsewhere: set the -ac hwac3 argument to -ac 
hwac3, (with the comma). That way if the sound stream is not AC3 encoded 
for any reason, mplayer will default to normal sound output :)

Drew

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