[MPlayer-users] Mac OS X Audio 5.1 Channel Output Problems

Tue Jan 15 14:53:01 CET 2008

On Tuesday, 15 January 2008 at 14:10, galenz at zinkconsulting.com wrote:
> I seem to be unable to get 5.1 audio output working with mplayer. All  
> I get is 2 channel audio with mplayer. I am using analog 5.1 out  
> hardware, properly configured in Audio MIDI setup, and 5.1 is working  
> perfectly with VLC, QuickTime, etc.
> 
> Here's the audio-related messages when playing a file I was recently  
> testing:
> 
> [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS) "English DTS 5.1 (1.5mbps)", -aid 0, - 
> alang eng
> 
> Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca
> Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000- 
>  >192000)
> Selected audio codec: [dts] afm: libdca (DTS-libdca)
> 
> I even recently recompiled mplayer with libdca, thinking that perhaps  
> that would have some effect. It did not.
> 
> How can I get 5.1 audio working? My video / audio files are not  
> corrupted and play great in other players. But mplayer only gives me 2  
> channels.
> 
> Ideas?

-channels 6

Regards,
R.

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