Help with ALSA & AC3 passthrough

AVS Forums Archives - Need help with ALSA & AC3 passthrough: "Problem solved, at least partially. I chucked Mplayer out the window and used Xine instead, and now it works with both the Revo and the on-board chip! Oh joy and eternal happiness!!! :-)

For the record, Xine requires an entry like this in the alsa config to make it work though:
pcm.!iec958 {
type plug
slave.pcm 'hw:0,1'
}

You also need to activate the pass-through in the Xine settings but that's no big deal."