[linux-dvb] Re: Questions about dvdplayer

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Szymon Polom writes:
 > Hi...
 > 
 > Andreas Wohlfeld wrote:
 > 
 > > > The AC3 stream is not decoded by the dvb card. If you have some
 > > > programming skills then the right way would be to decode the ac3 data
 > > > and to LPCM and to send it to the DVB card or to your soundlbaster
 > > > (downmixed to 2 channels).
 > 
 > > But can you get the AC3 stream (e.g. from Pro7) out of the spdif connector?
 > > I haven't yet connected my dvb-s to my dd receiver so I have no
 > > experience with that.
 > 
 > As stated by Ralph Metzler this is not possible due to some hardware
 > related limitations. I guess the data forwarder isn't able to handle ac3
 > streams. Ralph: is that true?

Yes, that's correct.
To handle AC3 one would have to have control over the complete output 
stream to create the appropriate headers.
But on the current hardware you cannot do that. You can only send PCM
data.


Ralph



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