From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 6 16:27:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4043737B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from puma.icir.org (puma.icir.org [192.150.187.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE5943FB1 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:27:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodson@puma.icir.org) Received: from puma.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by puma.icir.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h170RA8J085962; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodson@puma.icir.org) Message-Id: <200302070027.h170RA8J085962@puma.icir.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: "Atte Peltomaki" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG From: Orion Hodson Subject: Re: AC3 throughput via S/PDIF In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2003 01:53:18 +0200." <20030206235318.GA580@naama> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:27:10 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org /-- "Atte Peltomaki" wrote: | > Does -CURRENT audio driver (SB Live!) support AC3 audio throughput v= ia | > S/PDIF to an external DD5.1/DTS decoder? Last time I checked (year a= go) | > it didn't. This actually forced me to switch to Linux on desktop bac= k | > then, since my attempts to understand and fix the sourcecode failed | > miserably. | = | Allright - I figured out the sourcecode far enough to realize there's n= o | support. Most likely it's not a feature with very high priority either,= | at least I feel that way after many sent mails with no replies. As one of the sound committers I can confirm that this is not on any map = I'm = aware of. There are limited resources in the sound development departmen= t. = If you are interested in doing this, we're happy to answer questions, and= = provide whatever help we can along the way, and of course, commit it when= it's = sufficiently polished. - Orion To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message