[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS mplayer.1,1.260,1.261

[Arpi]

Hi,

> maybe.... :-)
> but i still don't understand it completely....
> 
> so you're saying it all depends on the audio decoder? 
no

> mplayer simply passes the required audio-channel-num to the
> audio-decoder and then it's up to the decoder what to output ( as long
> as it's channel-num is correct )?

it's a hint for audio decoder, and a strict rule for audio output.
so if audio decoder ignores it and passes more channels than it should to ao
then it will truncate.

> and if so, could you provide at least for the most common situations the
> numbers? :
> 5.1 audio and i have -channels 2
> 5.1 audio ...........-channels 4.. i was told that in this case the
> subwoofer channel is dropped and the front middle ( or what's his name )
> gets mixed into front-left and front-right... correct?
dunno, RTFS
the behaviour of -channels didn't change for ac3 codec.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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