On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 at 10:25am, Adam Williamson wrote
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 21:53 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
No ground loop noise! VLC player can pass the Dolby Digital or DTS signal to the receiver for full surround sound.
If you're trying to do this, expect problems, as PulseAudio doesn't really cope with encoded signal passthrough yet, though I believe someone's working on it.
Wow, seriously? The advice I've always seen for HTPCs is to disable pulseaudio, but I was thinking about trying out pulse when I upgrade mine to F14. Guess not.
To the OP, try taking pulse out of the equation by removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. On my F12 HTPC, digital passthrough works on both HDMI and optical with that setup. Places like the XBMC forums and/or the Linux forums over at avsforum can be quite helpful for this.