On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Benny Sjostrand wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I have a great deal of problems to get 5.1 sound to work when I play
> > DVD:s. I use alsa 0.9.0rc6 and mplayer 0.90pre9 as my DVD player. If I
> > try "mplayer -channels 6 -dvd 1" the only thing I get is the front
> > speakers and nothing else, no center, no LFE. I also tried "mplayer
> > -channels 6 -dvd 1 -ao alsa9" but that resulted in this:
>
> For the moment the only way to get surround 5.1(DTS, or whatever) on any
> cs46xx based soundcard is to use an external receiver using the SPDIF
> passthrow. However the SPDIF passthrow functionality is very unstable
> and get very easily out of sync, probably wont work ....
>
> Surround 4.0, just using front and rear spekears output should work
> without any known HW issue. Then how to configure mplayer to use the
> outputs hw:0,0 and hw:0,1 dont know ...
Benny, is any reason why 'surround40' device doesn't work with the CS46xx
driver? The configuration is in alsa-lib/src/conf/CS46xx.conf .
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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