[MPlayer-dev-eng] surround sound documentation

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/21/05, Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Now seriously, who has surround hardware?
> 
> I have the hardware but not the audio equipment. I just spent a few
> minutes plugging a pair of headphones into various audio jacks and
> mplayer's surround support seems to work ok. With alsa I can just:
> 
> 1. mplayer -channels 6 -ao alsa
> 2. run alsamixer and play around with the various controls.
> 
> -or-
> 
> 1. mplayer -ac hwac3
> 
> I don't have a stereo capable of decoding ac3; when I plug my headphones
> into the S/PDIF jack I hear what is definitely a digital signal; I can't
> say if it's correct though.
> 
> 
> If nobody with surround equipment steps forward and writes something for
> the docs I'll give it shot.

I think you can safely go ahead to do it when you can, taking relevant
pieces of http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~diego/DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt so we can
maybe in the end nuke that file if your doc makes it useless.

Guillaume

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