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

[Nicolas George]

Le quintidi 15 messidor, an CCXVII, Robert Henney a écrit :
> 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.

mplayer does not open the first device, it opens the PCM "surround51", and
falls back to "default" if it is not possible. If the ALSA configuration
files shipped with your system define a "surround51" pcm, you have to
override it too in your .asoundrc.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George