Comment 5 for bug 554002

Same behavior is continuing into maverick - no .ac3 playback with gstreamer apps if using 5.1 analog output in pulse and trying to play a 5.1 .ac3 stream whether ffrom dvd video or an .ac3 audio file

From dmesg
Jul 14 19:29:39 doug-desktop1 kernel: [ 6454.176590] Xorg:877 freeing invalid memtype e8b35000-e9135000
Jul 14 19:30:05 doug-desktop1 pulseaudio[2556]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Jul 14 19:30:06 doug-desktop1 pulseaudio[2556]: last message repeated 10 times
Jul 14 19:30:06 doug-desktop1 pulseaudio[2639]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Jul 14 19:32:41 doug-desktop1 pulseaudio[2639]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Jul 14 19:32:42 doug-desktop1 pulseaudio[2639]: last message repeated 10 times
Jul 14 19:32:42 doug-desktop1 pulseaudio[2712]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.

From totem (rhythmbox is the same

(totem:2499): Totem-DEBUG: totem_playlist_add_one_mrl (): www_lynnemusic_com_surround_test.ac3 (null) (null)

** Message: Error: pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated
pulsesink.c(1571): gst_pulseringbuffer_commit (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstPlaySink:playsink0/GstBin:abin/GstBin:audiosinkbin/GstGConfAudioSink:audio-sink/GstBin:bin8/GstAutoAudioSink:autoaudiosink4/GstPulseSink:autoaudiosink4-actual-sink-pulse