[MPlayer-users] alsa9 with more than 2 channels

[gabor]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 16:42, Carsten Schultz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:27:03AM +0100, gabor wrote:
> > basically doing this works:
> > 
> > mplayer -ao alsa9:surround40 -channels 4
> 
> Thanks.  I hope that wasn't in TFM.
> 
> *Seems* to work now.  Does anyone have test files?
> 
> > many people (at least 2) reported that when you seek in the file the
> > channels get mixed up somehow ( like middle switches with left etc)..
> 
> Is that considered an alsa bug or an MPlayer bug?
i think it's a mplayer bug.
> 
> > so i recommend you to use the oss driver ( the 'emu10k1' one, i'm not
> > talking about alsa-oss-emulation ), it's easier to setup and it works.
> [...]
> > p.s: or are any special reasons that u want to use alsa?
> 
> Just that alsa comes with Suse, so it is definitely easier to set up
> for me.

oss doesn't come with a suse kernel?

"modinfo emu10k1" ?

gabor
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carsten