[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    
 Milestone:               |   Component:  core   
Resolution:               |    Keywords:         
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Changes (by mdelorme):

 * cc: maxime at familledelorme.com (added)


Comment:

 we can see that it is now a work in progress
 http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commit;h=9b6c84ad6e572854f199379177226e24c317d0d8
 For the moment the best I found to play 5.1 channel on SPDIF/IEC958 is to
 mute PA thanks to pavucontrol and set my movies player (gxine) to
 passthough by avoiding using PA

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/167#comment:20>
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