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Are you having any luck Funman? Do you need any other verification from us?

ok i meant amplifier, not speakers of course

but sometimes the amplifier is built in a speaker, so i was confused.

i'll try to find that kind of amplifier, and keep you informed.

thanks for your answer, it's clearer now

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 ...

The problem seems to occur anytime VLC tries to use A/52. It happens when I play a dvd disk, or an avi movie encoded with the AC3 codec for 5.1 surround.

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 ?

He was probably just posting so he could subscribe to the topic. A lot of us are eagerly awaiting the resolution of this issue.

we all know spdif output in alsa is broken, don't need everybody to tell so !

Hello, just adding my voice. Same problem - Late model KUBUNTU (7.04) Nforce2 soundsystem (onboard on Gigabyte mobo - it may be old but it works PERFECTLY under Winblows) SPDI/F out is wired up fine and drives my Boston Acoustics digital speakers. Analog out works fine. No SPDI/F out no matter what ...

I would take care of that, if only i had a card with SPDIF output, and speakers with SPDIF input ;) Maybe the patch works, i don't know, but the issue is to take care of trac ticket #461 One has to take care of fixing the SPDIF bug without reopening ...

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

Some code had been disabled in http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/15494 changeset

I verified the ticket #461 and it is still a problem when the patch attached to the ticket #894 is used, so another way has to be used to fix #461 I guess

In the timeline I see no a corresponding fix in the current sources Is there a chance it will be fixed in a nearest future?

I'd make some tests with my setup, but I don't think I can go through source patching/rebuilding...

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.

If you read the ticket....there is an update....code is posted, and if it's determined to be a fix it will hopefully be available in the next version release.

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

... Lets hope the volunteers with programming skills tackle this problem some day. At least it's not my "fault" that I cannot get spdif passthu working. :) So I'll stop trying until I read in the change-logs that it is fixed (under Linux). Bye.

here is the result (part2, in green) [00000001] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `plugins' [00000001] main libvlc debug: module bank initialized, found 125 modules main main program help Help options memcpymmx Module de memcpy optimisé MMX growl Plugin d'annonce Growl probe_hal Détection de p...

~ # vlc -vvv --color --list VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root) *************************************** * Running VLC as root is discouraged. * *************************************** It is potentially dangerous, and might not even work properly. [00000001] ...

My sound card has a quirk where the spdif channel actually goes to the bit bucket, so you have to use the spdif output by sending sound to the default output, and changing a setting so that IEC958 output comes from the PCM. (Realtek ALC850 ...

Update - there is an existing bug identified on the bug tracking system http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/894

Downside....the ticket is 7 months old...nobody is assigned. Developers are volunteer, they work on problems that interest them, and at present, nobody is interested/able to address this.

I installed vlc0.8.6b on FC5. When I played an avi file, sound and video were OK. I tried to play trp file, however vlc did not rend neither video nor sound. I also played this file on WinXP well. The messages sent by vlc running on FC5: ------------------------------------ main debug: creating new ...

I have the same problem as well. If you change the audio device (via the pulldown) to be stereo...it will send stereo out over your SPDIF - but I get no sound at all when it automatically detects AC3 and tries to use A/52. So far...nobody has had an answer. I'm using 0.8.6 and Ubuntu 7.04, ...

... to route different signal types to our home theatre recievers from our encoded files, through our respective audio devices (different mediums; spdif,toslink ,6ch discrete, rca analog and the respective different types of data. Still encoded in raw format to be converted at the next DAC in the ...

... very big problem, I' try find some clue on google, but i found nothing. Here is my problem, i wanna play my dvd's and divx's with ac3 sound via SPDiF passthrough but when i select A/52 via spdif (in Audio -> Audio Device dropdown box) sound only scratching. My soundcard is SoundBlaster Live! ...

Here is another problem with installing vlc-0.4.6 with qt. The Err msg: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/MediaPlayers/VLC-host/vlc-0.4.6/plugins/qt' gcc -DSYS_LINUX -finline-limit-30000 -Wall -Winline -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/MediaPlay...