[mythtv-users] 5.1 audio?

[Jack Madison]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 08:16 -0500, Josh wrote:
> Jack Madison wrote:
> >> [avilib] A: 48000 Hz, format=0x2000, bits=16, channels=2, bitrate=448
> >>
> >> It looks like it's only 2 channel, not 6 as I expected.  Am I ending up

> First, read the DVD box... if it says it has 5.1 then when you check the 
> AC3 box in MythDVD it will have the 5.1 stream... I have ripped my 
> entire 200+ collection (minus the stack of 5 - 10 that doesn't want to 
> be ripped) and each and every rip with AC3 has the stream... if you 
> "check" it, it's there. You can search the users archive for a couple of 
> long posts I have on the 5.1 stuff and I also had a couple of threads on 
> the Alsa user list too... neither thread was "hot" per se, but they may 
> contain some good testing information for you.
> 

Thanks for responding.  I searched mythtv-users for posts made by you
and was happy to see your output from mplayer is:
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000) 
and my output from mplayer is:
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)

Looks like my sound is ok (no hardware to test it on yet).  Just out of
curiosity, what is the 2 channels referring to if it's really 6 channels
of sound?