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  1. Bug #205717
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 205717

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Achim (ach1m) wrote : Re: [Hardy] S/Pdif / digital output not available in pulseaudio

You can follow this discussion to see were the problems are.

https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-May/001863.html

If you use SPDIF for AC3 decoding then you don't need pulseaudio.
For example you can configure VLC to use ALSA and SPDIF. That is no problem.
If you use pulseaudio you only get a 2 channel signal if you put a stream on the digital output.
The Multichannel support in pulseaudio is working great for me.
Totem and Gstreamer are doing the rest.

I have followed the instructions above to see my digital output in pulseaudio but I don't really need it.
So there should be no problems, that couldn't be solved.

regards
Achim