[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS mplayer.1,1.260,1.261

[Arpi]

Hi,

> the last sentence isn't very clear to me....what does it mean that the
> exceeding channels are truncated?

they will be dropped

> let's say i have a movie with 6channels audio ( 5.1 ).... now i only
> have 2 speakers, so i specify -channels 2.... now as i understand the
> doc says that 4 channels will get dropped... but afaik it's not the
> case... the 5.1 channels will get somehow mixed into 2, or don't?

it's tricky. the ac3 decoder will see that you only want 2 output channels,
so it will 'decode to' 2 channels.

> so i suggest to make this sentence more clear....
i agree. but where is the patch? :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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