From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCvQI-00048p-Kr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:09:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1P97RVr007007; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:07:27 GMT Received: from puchmayr.linznet.at ([80.66.46.165]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1P93Jbl007969 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:03:19 GMT Received: (qmail 28627 invoked by uid 210); 25 Feb 2006 10:03:18 +0100 Received: from 192.168.1.2 by hephaestos (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (f-prot: 4.6.3/3.16.10. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.2):. Processed in 0.840475 secs); 25 Feb 2006 09:03:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zeus.puchmayr1.linznet.at) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 25 Feb 2006 10:03:17 +0100 From: Alexander Puchmayr To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] S/P diff question - SOLVED Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:03:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200602241612.49155.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <200602242122.53624.krakrjak@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200602242122.53624.krakrjak@volumehost.net> Organization: Fa Linznet Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602251003.15620.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> X-Archives-Salt: 4b269c1f-9c02-43e2-8edb-b5c13510bbfd X-Archives-Hash: 003100a5b8c539d77339fca0d590cfed Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 04:22 schrieb Zac Slade: > On Friday 24 February 2006 09:12, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly > > transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format > > ans switches to dts/dolby mode, and -- much important -- I can hear the > > movie's sound); But if I try the same with a "normal" divx-file or try > > to play anything else, nothing comes out over the spdif port, only via > > the analog audio jacks I can hear something. > > What program is playing back the DVD? Is this different from the player > playing the "other" media files? > > Since something can play out the spdif port then it might be important to > look at that program's setup for audio output. What device is it using > etc. -- Finally, I found out *what* really went wrong. I was using freevo with default settings, which uses xine for playing dvds and mplayer for playing avi/mp3/whatever. So, I setup xine as desired and where happy that dvds worked fine. I did not expect that freevo starts mplayer for playing nearly everything else, so I did not check the config, and viola: mplayer was configured to use oss. This was bad enough to make the alsa driver muting the spdif and only using analog output, even when using some other software for playing sound. This was where I gave up yesterday. After finding out which programs where really used, I checked /etc/freevo/local_conf.py and configured mplayer correctly to use alsa. Now spdif and analog output works as it should :-)) Thanks and greetings Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list