[vdr] Re: Dolby Digital - please help...

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Gernot A. Weber" wrote:
> 
> > > finally I got my soundcard working. Now I`m able to playback a file with
> > > the ac3dec provided with the CVS-Tree of alsa. But I have two questions
> > > left:
> > >
> > > 1.) I started vdr with -a "'ac3dec -C`", but I get no output of my
> >
> > Are you sure you wrote it this exactly way?
> >
> > Shouldn't this read
> >
> >    -a "ac3dec -C"
> >
> > without the ' and the ` ?
> >
> You are right. Sorry for the misspelled posting. I used -a "ac3dec -C"...
> Any other ideas? What`s the way to tell vdr to play ac3 and not the pcm
> stream?

VDR just "shovels" the DD data into the ac3dec pipe. Whatever comes out
of that data is up to ac3dec...

I have no personal experience with DD yet.

Klaus
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