[mythtv-users] Problem playing some 5.1 audio.

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 7 April 2010 04:31, Martin <martin.rene.mortensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I saw something on ffmpeg that they finally put in native aac/he-aac
> support. It must have been just before 0.23 ffmpeg sync.
> Maybe we could apply the patches, then we would not need libfaad - but would
> that solve the speaker placement problem ?

It's not done yet..

Then you need LATM/AAC support added (which currently requires libfaad).

Going to ffmpeg native decoder adds another problem : it doesn't
downmix . So playing 5.1 content on a stereo system : no center
channel , meaning no dialogue ...