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Oops, sorry you are correct. It was itunes 8 that I mistakenly stated, it is QT 7.6. Anyway since that time I had a spare mac mini (dual intel 1.8 gHz) that i erased, put on a new system and added perian (set to multichannel output), added the appropriate line to the com.cod3r.a52codec.plist to enab...

Is this a Quicktime incompatibility problem by chance? I am using quicktime 8.1 and i did not see any mention of compatibility with QT 8 in the update info.

I wish it were so, but i haven't installed any other codecs (at least not intentionally) as the system was set up new as of thursday (new mini form apple). This is a particularly vexing problem (at least for for me). The only software that is installed besides the apple system software is elgato eye...

Thanks for the reply gbooker, but unfortunately I do have pass-through enabled (just to be sure i performed the terminal command again and checked the plist file). I know that it used to work, but had not used the mac mini for over a year to play movies directly to a TV (used quite nicely as a media...

Thanks gbooker, i was being dense. However, I still have the problem that all my movies and tv shows that are encoded in AAC and AC3 (5.1 dolby) still only send PCM (48000) to the receiver, not dolby 5.1. They play fine when streamed to the appletv which sends the signal via HDMI to the receiver (as...

I have a brand new mini (2 days old) with 10.5.6, I installed perian, the com.cod3r.a52codec.plist is setup correctly but when i open audio midi setup it simply shows "output is not supported" under audio setup. I suspect that 10.5.6 broke the digital output that used to work with Perian (...

Dear all, I have been using a mini (1.83 intel) as a media server to 2 appletvs and it works great but recently i thought I might use the mini to play movies directly to a third tv and stream to the two other ATVs. all works well except that i cannot seem to get the mini to pass AC3 dolby 5.1 to my ...

Hey Push E, thanks for the effort. I was really hoping you would discover the secret. It really makes one wonder what the difference is between those that seem to have no problem and most of us that do. I have gone to using the mac mini as just a media server and appletvs as the clients. It works ve...

Well, the Mac mini was a fresh and clean install from ground up with Leopard 10.5 and then updated to 10.5.2. Perian 1.1 was the first ever used version of Perian and theres only Flip4Mac WMV installed as other codecs. The first time I activated passthrough was after installing QT 7.4.5, iT 7.6.2 a...

It seems that a few individuals are not having problems with QT 7.4.5. It is puzzling to say the least.Has anyone tried a clean install from the ground up and then installed Perian 1.1 to see if it works? I am reluctant to try since I have it running so well right now. It is frustrating that Apple a...

Push, I did update my itunes and FR, so apparently the only problem is with the QT upgrade. I have a feeling that the problem QT 7.4.5 has with AC3 passthrough is the new security measures that have been implemented. Presumably Perian will have to be updated to work with the new quicktime and pass A...

Hi Push, It is not obvious how Pacifist does it but it is actually quite simple (it is just not evident from the instructions for Pacifist). Here goes. Download the previous version of quicktime or itunes (whatever you want to go back to) open the package in Pacifist and install. Pacifist will ask w...

Gern,
See my last post, you can use Paciifist to "downgrade" to 7.4.1

Hey everyone, Glad to see I am not the only one with this problem. I could not get AC3 to work, all I got was a loud static like a machine gun. Tried to reinstall 7.4.5 and then Perian, checked the com.cod3r.ac52codec plist and looked correct. Still the same problem. Without perian installed I got t...

Thanks for the reply gbooker. I wanted to make sure about something. I encode my DVDs in only AC3 in handbrake and now i get a staccato sound out of my surround receiver instead of DD 5.1. What type of file are you playing that works and is it possible that it might also be encoded in AAC (a default...

Dear All, I use Perian 1.1 and set up quicktime to pass DD5.1 (AC3) to my receiver. Worked fine with Handbrake ripped DVDs. I upgraded to the latest Quicktime (7.4.5) and now it does not work. Went back to reinstall perian 1.1 and checked the plist to see if it still set for passthrough and it looks...