[mythtv-users] new audio options in 0.23-fixes and osx frontend

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 2 June 2010 12:56, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I'm using the optical cable.  The problem is there is no longer a
> "passthrough" option available in the audio settings.
>
> When I select 5.1 and then check "Dolby Digital", I get loud static on
> playback.  Running -v audio shows this in the log:
>
> 2010-06-01 19:47:25.172 AFD: AC3 changed from 2 to 6 channels (frame 1669)
> 2010-06-01 19:47:25.206 AFD: AC3 changed from 6 to 2 channels (frame 1670)
> 2010-06-01 19:47:25.206 AFD: AC3 changed from 2 to 6 channels (frame 1670)
> 2010-06-01 19:47:25.307 AFD: AC3 changed from 6 to 2 channels (frame 1673)
> 2010-06-01 19:47:25.307 AFD: AC3 changed from 2 to 6 channels (frame 1673)
>
> etc, switching ~20 times a second.  This is for a wide variety of
> shows with different audio tracks.  Obviously not the preferred
> configuration...

This won't help much..
We've noticed this with some abc's encoding...

The fix was to only allow one change to discard the others...