[pulseaudio-discuss] AC3 passthrough on SPDIF

[Rick W. Chen]

Jon Smirl said the following on 25/05/08 08:59:
> After wondering for few hours how my stereo was supporting 5.1 sound
> over SPDIF which I thought was only a stereo connection, I discovered
> AC3 passthrough over SPDIF.
> 
> I see various references to this in Google, is this supported yet? Is
> there a good write up on how to do it?
> 

I followed this guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4451132.
It uses alsa to encode ac3 on the fly for everything except actual ac3
or dts audio, which are passthrough.

-- 
  Rick