[MPlayer-users] .asoundrc ignored when playing 6ch audio

[Robert Henney]

I have two 5.1 sound cards in my machine and use the .asoundrc file
to select the default device.  my .asoundrc file contains:

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card Live
}
ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card Live
}

when playing stereo audio, mplayer will obey the .asoundrc and use 
whichever device is selected as the default.  however, when playing 5.1
audio with "-channels 6", mplayer will always open the first 
device (0,0).  This seems like unintended behaivor to me.