[jaunty] AC3 passthrough unstable, in Kaffeine and VLC OK

[Grizzly]

aplay -L

default:CARD=NVidia
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

And now doing as in the wiki (settings see attachment)

-> When starting a recording's playback, AC3-Symbol on Receiver flashes, there is sound for 1-2 sec an maybe every half minute. When hitting <esc> mythfrontend shutsdown unexpectedly.

mp2 works, but sounds distorted. The same mpg palyed in vlc or kaffeine is fine - with ac3 passthrough and all.

>2 years and still not so easy...

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by opening this ticket. Were you able to resolve this issue? If so, what steps did you take? If not, I'm under the impression that AC3 support has gotten better in MythTV 0.22, and that audio support continues to be enhanced in 0.23 (which is about to go to beta). Can you try either of those and report back if that resolves your issue?

WARNING: If you need to have the ability to revert back to your current version, you will need to back up your database before upgrading so that you can later restore it, since newer databases can not be downgraded.

[Grizzly (sven-witterstein)]

Please close this bug. It is now the other way round - in the dev ppa for 0.23 ac3 (even upmixing to ac3) always works like a charm for months - it is the rest of the mediaplayers that has troubles now on karmic. As lucid is so near, we should call it a day...

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Thank you for reporting back. In the future, you are welcome to close tickets by changing the status to either "Invalid" or "Fix Released"