Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and alsa

2005-02-17 Thread RPBrown
ac=hwac3 causes a buzzing sound on my setup :( Basically what setup I'm looking for is 2channel mp3 gets piped to all speakers and anything ac3 will get do 5.1, currently I have the 5.1 part working, but everything thats 2 channel only gets played to the front speakers. Is there any way to do thi

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and alsa

2005-02-16 Thread Dylan Hall
Another way to deal with this problem is to run a digital audio connection to your amplifier (SPDIF). When I do this the amp interprets 2 channel sound and will convert to 5.1 automatically (Dolby Surround) and pass 5.1 (Dolby Digital/AC3) straight through. Inside my .mplayer/config file I specif

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and alsa

2005-02-16 Thread Evan Hisey
Brown- Can't tell you for sure, but hte place to start looking wouldbe in the local_conf.py There are several config lines dealing with the default sound setup near teh top of the file. A second place to look would be in teh mplayer mp3 options about half way down the file. Here you can set file

[Freevo-users] freevo and alsa

2005-02-15 Thread RPBrown
When using Freevo, I generally I have 2 types of files, (1) .avi with AC3 (2) .avi with an MP3 stream currently i've got this as my working asound.conf, it works fine when playing AC3 audio over 5.1 channels, however anything thats not AC3, 2 Channel MP3 for example doesnt get split over the 5.1.