[vlc] Re: ALSA surround51 support - working?

[Alex Perry]

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005, Alex Perry wrote :
> > I've got a working ALSA supported card and verified surround51 capability.
> > The CM8738 supports 6ch 48kHz 16bit, which is what I expect VLC to use.
> > With all sources I've tested so far, it works for Xine and fails for VLC.

BigBen replied:
> Well, just tested, and you have a good point here... We're trying to see
> were the issue is. A temporary workaround would be to enable the OSS
> emulation layer included in the ALSA drivers. VLC should fall back to
> OSS automatically. This trick allowed me to get 5.1 sound on my nforce2.

Hmm.  For me, the emulation layer is only permitting stereo operation.
I don't even get the menu item option to select the 5.1 audio output.
Thank you for the suggestion though.

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