[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1104: multichannelaudio support

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Tue Jan 15 23:41:39 UTC 2008


Slightly off the current thread but certainly to do with #1104.

Does the patch merge the 5.1 tracks to an S/PDIF output or does it assume
6 discrete analog outputs to the ALSA output layer.

I ask because my theatre amp never sees anything other than PCM48 stereo
from my frontend.

If its 6 channels, can ALSA be set up to merge them to a single S/PDIF
stream?

I still don't quite have enough horsepower with my Epia SP13000 but its
close enough for me to pursue if I can find out how to drive it properly.

Also, with the latest patch, the help in setup screen implies that the
2/5.1 channel selection is related to the source of the audio rather than
what it will be munged into (number of channels to decode implies the
width of the source to me!) - but then again maybe I'm just terminally
confused :-(

Cheers


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Robin Gilks




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