No AC3 sound from VIA S/PDIF

["Gareth Cook/UK/IBM" <gcook@xxxxxxx>]

Here's one - it's happening on both a
Abit KT7 and the new Via MiniITX board (both with onboard Via Sound
chips)

Both have onboard S/PDIF ports (Abit has
Optical, Via has Coax). Sound works fine through it - the Amp detects it as
PCM. If I play an AC3 encoded AVI, and select S/PDIF, still only get PCM
sound. I've tried PowerDVD 4 too - same thing.

The same AVI played through my main
system, which has an SBLive with optical/coax out DOES work fine - and the
Amp detect a AC3 bitstream.

Anyone come across this ?

G.

Gareth Cook Senior Engineering Specialist EMEA ED, IBM SWG Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG

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