[MPlayer-users] alsa9 with more than 2 channels

[Carsten Schultz]

Hi!

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:27:03AM +0100, gabor wrote:
> basically doing this works:
> 
> mplayer -ao alsa9:surround40 -channels 4

Thanks.  I hope that wasn't in TFM.

*Seems* to work now.  Does anyone have test files?

> many people (at least 2) reported that when you seek in the file the
> channels get mixed up somehow ( like middle switches with left etc)..

Is that considered an alsa bug or an MPlayer bug?

> so i recommend you to use the oss driver ( the 'emu10k1' one, i'm not
> talking about alsa-oss-emulation ), it's easier to setup and it works.
[...]
> p.s: or are any special reasons that u want to use alsa?

Just that alsa comes with Suse, so it is definitely easier to set up
for me.

Thanks,

Carsten

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