[mythtv-users] nforce4 and AC3 SPDIF passtrough - anybody ?

[Nick Morrott]

On 10/06/07, Warpme <warpme at o2.pl> wrote:
> Hi *
>
> Has anybody successfully configured r5f1 to pass-through AC3 on nforce4 hw ?
> My mobo is Foxconn K8MA-8EKRS (nforce4 based).
> I successfully managed to play mythtv, mythmusic & mplayer with stereo AVIs.
> Problem is with AVI with AC3 sound (passthrough).
> My receiver react quite strange and randomly:
> -sometimes I hear 5.1 sound but my receiver is not displaying DD 5.1
> type of signal
> -when my receiver displays DD5.1 - so sound is on speakers :-(
>
> It behaves like some registers in nforce4 spdif hardware are set
> randomly...
> On ALSA forums I saw that problem is related to lack of documentation of
> nforce4....
> Will alsa 1.0.14 help here ?
> Is anybody was at all able to use AC3 passthrough on nforce4. Many nice
> boards for Myth FE are based on this chipset - so it would be nice to
> have fully working spdif...

I believe the Digital Sound HOWTO was written for nForce chipsets
originally - NF2 or NF4 - so check that out first -
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound.

-- 
Nick

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