[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #167: Support AC3 Passthrough

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#167: Support AC3 Passthrough
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  Reporter:  FireRabbit   |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  low          |   Milestone:         
 Component:  core         |    Severity:  minor  
Resolution:               |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by ari):

 +1 for AC3 passthrough support over SPDIF in pulseaudio. This is the only
 feature I really miss in pulseaudio in my soon-to-be linux media center.

 When playing back a movie that has ac3 / dolby audio and spdif is being
 used, and there is no other audio stream active (no mixing) then it would
 be great for pulseaudio to let the ac3 stream go through spdif with no
 decoding/encoding overhead... which I'm guessing would affect the stream
 quality.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/167#comment:12>
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