[MPlayer-users] AC3 + alsa bug?

[gabor farkas]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:44:56PM +0100, Bohdan Cech wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
> 
> ive experienced a strange behaviour of mplayer while playing AC3 movies 
> through alsa9.
> If i play movie using -channels 6 -ao alsa9:surround51 everything works 
> fine, but when
> i try to seek forward or backward in movie (buttons 
> pgup,pgdwn,left,right) it does some
> mess with channels. Seems to me like if it cycles channels like this
> (center+sub)->(left+right)->(left_surround+right_surround), so after 3 
> cycles (i press forward
> button 3 times for example) everything is ok again. Switching to 
> fullscreen and back does
> the same mess too.
> Ive tried MPlayers 0.90pre7 - 0.90rc2 and its same.
> 
> I use SB Audigy sound cart with analog 5.1 speakers connected.
> Sound drivers are alsa 0.9.0rc6 .
> 
> I hope you get rid of this bug fast because MPlayer is the greatest 
> movie player,
> keep the good work going.

can't you use oss? ( i know that it's not an excuse for a non working alsa
plugin )

bye,
gabor

> 
> With the best wishes for the New Year
> 
> Bohdan Cech
> 
> 
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