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

[gabor]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 23:10, Arpi wrote:
> > mplayer simply passes the required audio-channel-num to the
> > audio-decoder and then it's up to the decoder what to output ( as
long
> > as it's channel-num is correct )?
> 
> it's a hint for audio decoder, and a strict rule for audio output.
> so if audio decoder ignores it and passes more channels than it should
to ao
> then it will truncate.
> 
> > and if so, could you provide at least for the most common situations
the
> > numbers? :
> > 5.1 audio and i have -channels 2
> > 5.1 audio ...........-channels 4.. i was told that in this case the
> > subwoofer channel is dropped and the front middle ( or what's his
name )
> > gets mixed into front-left and front-right... correct?
> dunno, RTFS
> the behaviour of -channels didn't change for ac3 codec.
> 
> 
ok, this is my first try for a patch ( i know i should post this to
mplayer-dev-eng, but the discussion was here ).

the biggest problem is that i don't know how much info should i put into
the manpage to make it easy to read for beginner, and at the same time
give enough info to understand it...

so what do you think?

bye,
gabor
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