Did we somewhere along the way lose the ability to pass through AC3/DTS audio over S/PDIF? It makes no difference whether sndiod(1) is running, and it's the same for mplayer-20140106p3 and mplayer-20140412.
$ mplayer -afm hwac3 dvd.vob [...] ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family hwac3... Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF hwac3: switched to AC3, 384000 bps, 48000 Hz AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3be, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000) Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF) ========================================================================== AO: [sndio] 48000Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample) [format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported [libaf] Reinitialization did not work, audio filter 'format' returned error code -2 [libaf] Unable to setup filter system can not meet sound-card demands, please send a bug report. Couldn't find matching filter/ao format! Audio: no sound [...] My ability to test this will likely go away over the next few days, so if nobody else cares... *shrug* -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
