[vlc-devel] commit: Try to not confuse between Dolby Surround (2.1) and Dolby Digital ( 5.1) (Jean-Baptiste Kempf )

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:53:50AM +0200, Boris Dores wrote :
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:16:31PM (GMT+0200), git version control wrote:
> > Try to not confuse between Dolby Surround (2.1) and Dolby Digital (5.1)
> 
>   Sorry, but I am convinced this is wrong (I wrote those lines). This
OK.

> option is really about Dolby Surround, not Dolby Digital. Anyway, I fail
> to see how Dolby Digital could not be detected, that's the point of the
> digital thing over the stereo encoded analog one.
> 
>   And by the way, I really think that Dolby Surround (Prologic in this
> case) cannot be called 2.1 : it's stereo + rear + front, not stereo +
> LFE ([1], see "notation").
There are two issues here, the one in force-dolby-surround and the fact
that  when you can select the output-mode under the channels sub-menu, the
entry called "dolby surround".

Maybe just the second one had to be fixed.

I will revert.

Best Regards,

-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/