[MPlayer-users] new ALSA9 code

[gabor]

On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 18:59, Vladimir I. Umnov wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello, mplayer-users.
> 
> 1) This work better, but many bugs present. For example:
> "-ao alsa9 -channels 6" don't work. But now work
> "-ao alsa9:surround51 -channels 6". That's great!
> But it must work with first format!!!

it newer worked with "-ao alsa9 -channels 6".
you always had to use "-ao alsa9:surround51"

> Ok, we can here all 6 speakers, but if u rewind, we hear some clicks
> and some strange thing happens - sound moving between channels until
> next rewind. This is surround!!! Sound moving with rewind from one
> speaker to another?!!!
> 
> 2) I have SBLive and I try to use emu10k1 driver from sourceforge,
> but neither oss nor alsa oss emulation don't work with 6 channels!!!
> Why?

what does it mean that don't work..give a better description of the
error

i have a mandrake-2.4.20-kernel, and it works.
simply "mplayer -ao oss -channels 6 my.avi"

did you try with the default drivers from the kernel? do they work?
> 
> 3) Why "Surround" in alsamixer to influence to center speaker???
>    In ALSA mailing list I can't obtain intelligible, clear,
>    understandable, perspicuous answer! In oss driver in phorum I can't
>    get any answer at all.
> 
> 4) After that, I have question: why I purchase SBLive if want to use
> it in Linux with full support for 6 channels? May be I have bad card?
> I read many times all faq and installation notes. I try to setup my
> card with howto's. But all of this don't work. I even try to use
> latest kernel from 2.4 and 2.5 tree. I try to use different scripts
> and so....
> I pained now...
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