[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Support for 8 channel audio

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:36:40AM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > About OpenAL, I maintain it so I'll try to have a look at it after this
> > is in, can you give me an idea of what the speaker positions for a 8
> > channel layout are (ao_openal uses OpenAL in a somewhat strange way).
> 
> The typical configuration is: left front, right front, center, side
> left, side right, rear left, rear right.
> 
> See http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/129025.jpg

Uh, is that for 8-channel only? Because for up to 6 channel when I
tested it the order was:
left front, right front, left rear, right rear, center, LFE