[mythtv-users] 5.1 audio?

[Josh]

Jack Madison wrote:
> 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?
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That's a good question, but it may be better suited towards the 
ALSA-User list as I have no idea why is says that as I was focused on 
the AC3 portion of the output; I'm just happy I finally got it working.

-- 
Josh