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--with-ffmpeg-tree=/mnt/hda13/src/multimedia/ffmpeg The source directory has the separate directories where the various '.a' library files are made. Boy am I stupid! Thank you for the info. Also, thank you for the gcc4 / gcc3 clarification. That info may come in very handy when compiling other appl...

Thanks for the info. :) The option "--with-ffmpeg-tree" I tried before (when I compiled ffmpeg from source): the problem with that is that VLC look in /usr/lib/libavcodec, but the header files (libavcodec. a etc.) do not reside in a seperate directory: they're all placed in the same dir. W...

Thank you for your help. Alas, a mediaplayer without s/pdif passthrough is useless to me: I use my PC as a mediacenter which is connected to my Dolby Digital Receiver.... So applying the patch is an absolute necessity.

P.S. ffplay (which I think is the player from ffmpeg) plays xvid files just fine. So it's probably not ffmpeg...



So whats wrong?

This is getting weirder and weirder. Yesterday I removed the ffmpeg package from my system (because I thought there might something wrong w/ the xvid support in it...), and I compiled ffmpeg from source code (with xvid support). Then I got an error message about VLC's ./configure not being able to f...

build your vlc with ffmpeg enabled or just use prebuilt rpms by dimstar Thnaks for your reply. But ffmpeg is enabled by default. And Dimstar's website is for Suse 10.2 (I use 10.3 now). ;) And I do not know if Dimstar patches VLC for the s/pfif passthrough bug, which is why I compile VLC from sourc...

I compiled VLC on Suse 10.3 from source code to enable s/pdif (thanks a lot for the patch in this topic!!). However, now I cannot playback xvid files, which I could do in Suse 10.2 with the same sourcecode/patch. Get the infamous error: [00000277] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for f...

Hubris, might it not be better to test AC3 passthrough with another file? Maybe there's something wrong with this one. Or did you try several video-files already?

Any idea when 0.9 will be released?

Hubris: do not forget to apply the patch:

Why don't you build VLC from source with the patch, like I did? I have no problemes with DVD's, DD5.1 etc., etc.?

Holy ..., well.. Holy everything that is holy!! I have DD5.1 passthrough via s/pdif now!!!

You'all are magic wizzards to me now!! Bow to the Kings!

Wait a minute. I typed "modules/audio_output/alsa.c" at the question in the error message, and it seems to work now... Will let you know if I have s/pdif out.

Funman, Thank you for the explanation of how to patch source code! :) However, if I type the command: patch < ../alsa-0.8.6.diff I get the error message: can't find file to patch at input line 5 Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -----------------...

Haw can I download a patched source code of VLC? Or must I download the (regular) source from here and then apply the patch? I do not know how to apply patches to source code, nor where to download patches....

Dear Dustin,

Thanks for the clarification. I hope the developpers now know where and what to look for the source code.

http://www.ac3filter.net might be a good source for information and code. It's a set of open source DirectShow filters and WinAmp plug-in, and they have excellent support for S/PDIF! Windows, yes, but I believe it may give some ideas about output stream formats ect., including support for USB cards...

Too bad your soundcard does not have an spdif out. If you are a VLC developper you might consider to pick up an old Soundblaster Live. That audiocard is quite old and cheap on eBay/computer fares. The Live has a lot of incarnations, the latter of which have a good spdif out (earlier models have a di...

I don't know what kind of audiocard you have in the computer that you own yourself, but many have an spdif out. On mine (a cheep one) it is one of the jack outputs that doubles as rear-left/right and spdif (I use Gnome-volume-control to select its function). I use a cable that has a jack on one side...

just to let you know i'm in possession of a laptop with spdif output, till next week-end, but I don't have compatible speakers. If it get some, I may be able to fix that bug, but I don't know nothing about spdif. Is it the codec used by DVDs ? How much is speakers' cost ? In my experience, speakers...

Let's hope it will get some attention from the development team. VLC is useless to me without s/pdif passthrough (media center).

You're right. There is work in progress for this problem. Maybe I'll compile VLC from source if I know how to use the 'diff' file (patch) to test if it works.

I'm interested in this problem too. So I'll watch this topic closely for a solution of the bug.

If you do a search, there's another thread on this exact topic. It IS already a bug....it was reported many months ago, but the developers for VLC are volunteers, and so far nobody has volunteered to tackle it. Thanks for the info. I did a search of course, but could only find this topic on it, and...

Same problem here with Linux and VLC Player version 0.8.6c. What I did: Settings > Preferences > Audio: - [tick mark] 'Advanced options'. - [tick mark] 'Use s/pdif when avaliable'. - Output modules: [pull-down box] Audio output module: 'ALSA' - Output modules > ALSA: [pull-down box] ALSA device name...