[MPlayer-users] more 4speaker questions

[gabor]

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 21:23, Jukka Tastula wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Monday 07 October 2002 22:12, gabor wrote:
> 
> > someone told me that sb-live-5.1 can decode ac3 streams.... so is it
> > possible to send the ac3 to the card, and have the card decode it?
> > because it seems like that is happening in windows...
> 
> I'm 100% sure sblive 5.1 does not have a hardware DD decoder, its such a cheap 
> card. It must be a software decoder. Windows is somewhat transparent about 
> these things.

ok, it can be that windows is doing the decoding.

> 
> Sblive 5.1 has two digital outputs, two stereo pairs. So there's no way it 
> could output the six channels even if it could decode them. There are 6 
> channels for analog output if thats what you want... so go play with lib52a 
> and read up on multichannel sound in emu10k1 driver docs.

no

see:
http://www.rt.sk/~gabor/lomo.png
it's from the sb-live-manual.pdf

so please be careful when speaking about live cards...
for example live-value really can't do 5.1, only 4.1

bye,
gabor

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