[vlc] Re: 6 channel with alsa

[Sameer Thahir]

On 9/29/05, Benjamin Pracht <bigben+spam at videolan.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005, Sameer Thahir wrote :
> > Hi people
> >
> > I have been using vlc for a while and i think its great and really
> simple
> >
> > especially the dvd menu feature
> >
> > .. Now i would like to have 6 channel playback with vlc.. im using alsa
> > 1.0.8 and have accomplished this on mplayer
> >
> > now how can I achieve this feature so i can turn my pc into a home
> theatre
> > with the power of vlc
> >
> > thanx in advance
> >
>
> You should have the possibility to choose "5.1" in the audio menu, audio
> device item on 5.1 sources.
>
> However, it seems alsa 5.1 doesn't work properly at least on some
> setups. We would really appreciate any success/failure report on that
> functionality.
>
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hi

i tried to play a dvd using the command line
vlc --aout alsa dvd://

and using the rc interface .. i get stereo sound .. i use " adev 6 " to
invoke 6 channel and i get the following errors

-------------------------------------------------------------------

adev
+----[ Audio Device ]
| 1 - Mono
| 2 - Stereo *
| 4 - 2 Front 2 Rear
| 6 - 5.1
| 10 - A/52 over S/PDIF
+----[ end of Audio Device ]
adev: returned 0 (no error)
adev 6
[00000534] alsa audio output error: unable to set stream sample size
and word order (Invalid argument)
[00000534] alsa audio output error: unable to set stream sample size
and word order (Invalid argument)
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
adev: returned 0 (no error)
----------------------------------------------------------------

and i still  get stereo sound

im using

vlc 0.8.4 -test
kernel 2.6.13 alsa drivers
debian sarge 3.1

i really would like to get 6 channel sound ..

thanx

bye

sameer
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