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No effort required! DirectX just doesn't work well for SPDIF. As a programmer I feel sad about your lack of commitment to this issue. If the "Standard" option doesn't work with SPIDF then why have it in the audiomenu? Perhaps it would be better to automatically switch to "waveout&quo...

I finally got it working. I found this post: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/vlc-no-spdif-output-t326561.html It gave these instructions: Go to [Preferences] and check [Advanced Options] Then Expand [Audio] and select [Output modules] Change [Audio output module] to [Win32 waveOut extension o...

Have you tried Waveout module in VLC? I don't know what "try Waveout module" means. There is only one setting in the preferences under the "Audio->Devices->Waveout" listing and thats a checkbox for using float32 or not. That option didn't make any difference. AC3 output still st...

known issue? no...

great, just the kind of helpful post i need! thanks!

I'm using my Sound Blaster Live! (Dell OEM version) to output digital sound to my Sony reciver. For HD content I usually use Zoomplayer because i need the CoreAVC codec for fast videodecoding. Using zoomplayer AC3 output works great, but with VLC as soon as I choose "A/52 over SPIDF" outpu...

Mac OS 10.1.4, 600MHz, iMac G3, 256Mb
VLC 7.0

For starters: why not try VLC 0.8.4a with OSX Tiger 10.4.5?

I just found a bug in VLC 0.8.5, If launching VLC from the terminal selecting the fullscreen videodevice with: $ ./VLC whatever.avi --macosx-vdev 2 -f VLC will still use screen 1, or default for fullscreen playback. The GUI is however updated by the --macosx-vdev 2 command, so you have to switch fro...

Duh. You should always avoid using / and : in filenames.

Duh. You should always... make sure your applications handles all file/folder-names supported on the intended userplatform.

Hi all you who has had a hard time getting subtitles to work. I might have the solution here.... To play subfiles with your movies in VLC on your mac you need to do 2 things, 1. Set the character-SET to ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) unless you are sure the subtitle is really UTF-8 which us rarely the case. I...