[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] update -channels to match observed behavior

Fri Sep 2 17:40:14 CEST 2005

Hi,
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:19:39AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Just fix the af init code to auto-load af_channels (at the END of the
> chain) if the output device does not support the number of channels
> requested. HOWEVER: it's probably wrong anyway, since the first 2
> channels are usually not L/R. IMO MPlayer's support for >2 channels is
> totally broken.

It does. But some aos (e.g. alsa from a week ago) just say
they can handle even 1 million channels...

Greetings,
Reimar DÃ¶ffinger