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

[deepak]

My .asoundrc reads as follows:

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "surround51"
    slave.channels 6
    route_policy duplicate
}

I am able to play Dolby/AC3 5.1, but not DTS 5.1


Nicolas George wrote:
> L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXV, Alexander Roalter a écrit :
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
> By default, mplayer tries to open the device "default" for 2 channels, and
> the device "surround51" for 6 channels (with a fallback to "default").
> Therefore, you just have to set up your .asoundrc so that surround51 points
> to hw:0.1.
>
> On the other hand, I do not see the need for -af channels=6: on my system,
> everything is fine without it.
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