Bitstreamout-plugin

Description

File:Bitstreamout-plugin.jpg

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The Bitstreamout plugin receives the 16bit encoded audio stream of a DVB card and sends it over the PCI bus to the S/PDIF port of an ALSA compatible sound card

Hardware requirements

• ALSA compatible sound card

Software requirements

• ALSA sound driver
• libmad

Installation

For installing libmad

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf libmad-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd libmad-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
ldconfig

For the plugin see plugin installation.

Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-o	--onoff	enable an control entry in the main menu
-m SCRIPT	--mute=SCRIPT	script for en/dis-able the spdif interface

Links

[3]	http://bitstreamout.sourceforge.net	Plugin homepage
[1]	http://www.alsa-project.org	ALSA sound card driver
[2]	http://www.underbit.com/products/mad	libmad homepage
[4]	http://www.muempf.de/down/DD-receiver-status.txt	List of compatible DD recevers
[5]	http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=1958	AC3 with bitstreamout HOWTO and AC3overDVB infos (german)