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

[KURAAKU Deibiddo]

Galen,

I could be wrong with this, but my understanding is that it's not a matter
of MPlayer not detecting it, it's a matter of MPlayer converting it to
2.0by default.  If you want MPlayer to play with 6 channels, you can
add the
following line to your ~/.mplayer/config:

channels=6

I have this in my config on Mac OS X.

m0ri

On Jan 15, 2008 9:07 AM, galenz at zinkconsulting.com <
galenz at zinkconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That was too easy!
>
> Any reason mplayer doesn't detect 5.1, like all other players?
>
> -Galen
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