[MPlayer-users] Problems downmixing to lower number of channels

[Bryan Donlan]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 04:37:03 -0400, D Richard Felker III
<dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 06:09:40PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > I'm trying to play back a 5.1 surround file with my 2-channel
> > speakers. I've tried using -channels 2, but that just silences all but
> > the front side channels. How can I get it to mix the back, center, and
> > subwoofer channels into the front two channels?
> 
> it's known to be broken. my solution is the following patch..
> 
> rich
> 
[snip]

Thanks. I'll pass this on to the Gentoo devs.

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bd