[MPlayer-users] MPlayer and DTS 5.1 (surround)

[deepak]

Beats me how totem-xine/ kaffeine-xine can play it, but not mplayer

Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Alexander Roalter wrote:
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>> Another thing, -af channels=6 was not needed for my on-board sound 
>> solution (nvidia nforce4 ultra chipset, don't know the make of the sound 
>> chip anymore), but due to a lightning stroke this thing gave up and now 
>> I'm using a terratec, where -af channels=6 is mandatory, as otherwise 
>> surround comes only from some loudspeakers, (IIRC rear right, front 
>> right and center or whatever), and definitely not in the right order.
>>
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> Oh, and I did forget: the moment you specify -af <something>, audio 
> track change with the # key won't work anymore, as internally the 
> channel number is set to zero (at least at the point where the channel 
> is changed) and mplayer exits with an error. I fixed that by hardcoding 
> 6 channels into that very special place, but this is merely a hack, but 
> noone else had any problems with it, so I don't know if there will be a 
> fix for this anytime soon.
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