[MPlayer-users] MPlayer and DTS 5.1 (surround)

[deepak]

Sorry, that doesn't work. Alex, are you able to play DTS 5.1 with MPlayer?

Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Giacomo Comes wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:17:18PM +0530, deepak wrote:
>>     
>>> It is DTS 5.1, but mplayer is downmixing it to 2ch
>>>       
>> If you have a soundcard with 6 speakers, you need to pass the options
>> -channels 6 -af channels=6
>> in order to have a 6 channels output.
>>
>> Giacomo
>>
>>     
> On my System though, I have to additionally specify the correct alsa 
> channel. Only one (0,1) accepts 6 channel input, the other two (0,0 and 
> 0,2) accept only 2 channel input, and play the 6 channel input at 1/3rd 
> speed, as always three channels get sequentially mixed into one
>
> in addition to -channels 6 -af channels=6 try -ao alsa:device=0.0 or 0.1 
> or 0.2 (IIRC the syntax, don't have access to my machine right now).
>
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