[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] 6-channel AAC and channel reordering

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 31 October 2006 at 18:04, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >> New stuff:
> >> * a little cleaner; better error checking
> >> * remapping for 6-channel WMA (in ad_dmo.c)
> >>   This is UNTESTED. I won't apply it without testing later, but somebody
> >>   else can test it now if they want to.
> > 
> > Yay! I can test it.
> 
> Thanks.

... but I have to build 32bit mplayer first. :(

> >> * remapping for 6-channel PCM (see below)
> > 
> > Sample? Or can I make a sample with mplayer -channels 6 -ao pcm file.ac3?
> 
> You can, but the file will have the channels in "mplayer order" and not
> in "microsoft order", unless you also apply the patch to ao_pcm that
> Giacomo just sent (assuming it works).
> 
> There's also a file in the wild here:
> http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/Samples/Microsoft/6_Channel_ID.wav
> from this page:
> http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/Samples.html

Thanks, works beautifully. Also, it made me discover I have my left and right
speakers swapped.

Regards,
R.

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