[MPlayer-users] sound blaster live! 24 external

[Papp Márton]

Hi Everybody!

I have recently bought a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24 External sound 
card. It works fine with MPlayer under Linux in stereo mode. I would 
like it to produce 5.1 surround sound, though. I simply cannot make that 
happen. I tried many of the command line options I found in manuals and 
mailing lists, but none of them worked. I would like to use the sound 
card's optical output as an input to a DVD player/aplifier. The dvd 
player has indicators showing how many channels it receives through its 
optical input. I've been able to make it work fine with other hardware, 
showing all channels are active.

Could somebody tell me whether it is even possible to make it sound in 
5.1 surround mode with MPlayer?

Thanks,

Marci