[MPlayer-DOCS] question about ao jack docs

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:15:37PM -0400, Compn wrote:
>    jack
>               audio output through JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
>                  port=<name>
>                       Connects to the ports  with  the  given  name
> (default: physical ports).
> 
> how to specify multiple ports? a user in #mplayer was having trouble
> neither ao jack:port=right,port=left nor ao jack:port=right,left
> nor ao jack:port=right:port=left worked for him.

You don't. jack can do the routing in any way you like, there is no need
to duplicate it in MPlayer, esp. since it would be a major effort to set
it up in a way that can deal with a changing number of channels, which
as I was told jack can handle.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger