I found that the hardware SRC was inferior to alsa's linear SRC which was inferior to mplayer's default SRC which was inferior to mplayer's resample fitler which was inferior to mplayer's lavcresample filter, which was still inferior to using an old Hollywood+ dvd decoder card purely for it's dolby certified SPDIF port.  ...
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10272 CLOS DUPL maj Sisyphus kmplayer xstranger romulak sudo apt-get install kmplayer

File a new bug in the "kmplayer" component of the "Sisyphus" product