[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] AC3 passthrough support

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 15/10/10 16:51 did gyre and gimble:
> Hiya,
> 
> 'Twas brillig, and elupus at ecce.se at 15/10/10 13:54 did gyre and gimble:
>> I must admit I've not looked much at our PulseAudio implementation
>> but i really thought it supported multichannel directly. I tried to
>> test it last night, but I was unable to configure pulse for a profile
>> of more than 2 channels in pulse settings (stock lucid version). I
>> figured that had to be done first. When that didn't work I didn't
>> even try anything in xbmc.
> 
> Damn, this was on my todo list for last night but I forgot :s
> 
> I meant to look and see if my statements were (still) true or not :)
> Will try and do it when I get home if I'm not too drunk (it is Friday
> afterall!)

Well last night didn't happen for testing, but upon looking this
morning, I have to take back my previous statement.

All is working very well with 5.1 direct pulseaudio output. Perhaps it
was an older version that I had to go via alsa or maybe I just made that up.

Either way I can get really nice 5.1 output via spdif using the a52 alsa
plugin on top of PA. Works really well.

Col

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