[mythtv-users] AC3 to SPDIF option

[Rich West]

Michael Wisniewski wrote:
> Hi!
>
>    I'm off from work because of the snow, and I've been hitting myth
> hard so that is why I have so many questions.  :-) 
>
>    Anyways, I have a question about the "Enable AC3 to SPDIF
> passthrough".  When I have this option enabled, AC3 does pass through
> to my receiver in Dolby Digital form, like it should.  When I disable
> it, it doesn't.  That makes sense, and works how I would have suspected.
>
>     But now, when I play a non-ac3 stream and have my receiver off, it
> plays through the speakers on my tv fine, using the line-out of the
> soundcard.  But when I try to play an ac3 dolby digital stream, the
> line-out of the sound card makes a bunch of clicks through the
> speakers on the tv. 
>
>     Is there a way to make it so that the line-out of the soundcard
> plays the stream no matter what, while the SPDIF out plays the digital
> stream?
>
>
> Thanks!
Check the WIKI:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF

-Rich