[MPlayer-users] Problems downmixing to lower number of channels

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:47:30PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:05:03 -0400, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 04:37:03 -0400, D Richard Felker III
> > <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 06:09:40PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to play back a 5.1 surround file with my 2-channel
> > > > speakers. I've tried using -channels 2, but that just silences all but
> > > > the front side channels. How can I get it to mix the back, center, and
> > > > subwoofer channels into the front two channels?
> > >
> > > it's known to be broken. my solution is the following patch..
> > >
> > > rich
> > > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Thanks. I'll pass this on to the Gentoo devs.
> 
> Mmm, actually, that looks like a hack, so unless it actually does work
> with any -channels option I'll wait for the upstream and manually
> patch it in the meantime.

right, this patch should NOT be applied.
btw please keep mplayer mail on-list!

rich