Dolby Stereo!!

[juski]

The LEAST Via could do is get the jumper settings for their board right in the manual!!!

TWO HOURS I messed around with various settings to get SPDIF working...

So I swapped the jumper over on the motherboard, set minimyth to 'digital' sound, set everything else up...

Now able to watch movies & listen to music in glorious digital sound

[shec0002]

Which board to you use? Are you willing to tell us your secret?

[juski]

My board is an EPIA-M10000. Once I got the jumper settings right it was just a matter of setting 'use AC3-passthru' in a mythtv config page and of course set minimyth.conf to 'analog+digital'.

[JonathanL]

I had a problem where I could not get AC3 audio to play back over the 2 channel analog output (M10000) using minimyth 0.18.1.8. Xine was playing the sound for all other video just fine, but it would not play AC3 sound on DVDs.

The problem stemmed from a line in xine's config file (/root/.xine/config) that read audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through. I changed this line to audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Stereo 2.0 and now I can enjoy Dolby Digital soundtracks over the 2 channel analog sound output.

Just for reference for anybody else that may come across this problem, this fix involved:

• Using cramfsck to extract rootfs-minimyth-0.18.1.8
• Changing the audio.output.speaker_arrangement setting in the file rootfs-ro/root/.xine/config to the value I described above
• Using mkcramfs to rebuild the disk image that contains the modified xine config file

There may be a more efficient way to fix this, but the above steps worked for me! By the way, my minimyth.conf has the default MM_AUDIO_TYPE line: #MM_AUDIO_TYPE=analog

[Hairlocks]

Thanks JonathanL that looks great, I will give it a try tonight. I also have the DVD problem over analog.

[pkahle]

Rather than rebuild the tarball, one solution I tried and I think worked (unless it's been updated in the rootfs of 0.18.1. is to provide a minimyth.script like the following:

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#! /bin/sh
sed -i {s/audio\.output\.speaker_arrangement\:Pass\ Through/audio.output.speaker_arrangement\:Stereo\ 2.0/} /root/.xine/config

(that should be two lines, the second starting with sed)

if you've already got a script, adding the sed line to it should work. much easier than messing with the cramfs.

unfortunately my problem was unrelated.

P