[MPlayer-users] audio... more than 2 speakers..

[Petr Pajas]

gabor <gabor at realtime.sk> writes:
> i've just got a sb-live ( after a sb128pci ), so now i enjoy that i can
> watch 6 movies at the same time with sound :-))))

nice, but I'm able to play almost unlimited # of movies with -ao arts
on my on-board VIA 2ch crap as long as my Athlon CPU allows it.
>
> i understand that if a video contains ac3 audio, then it's somehow
> transformed into 2channel audio for the sound cards..
>
> and that you can somehow play back ac3 audio... 
> but what i wanted to ask is this:
>
> sb-live supports a mode with 4 speakers ( 2 rear, 2 back )...
>
> is mplayer able to use thos 4 speakers?

mplayer -channels 4 ?

-- Petr