I am just fiddling with vlc/mplayer and just tried the Internal player with a few HD .MKV movie files. I am wondering if there is a way to get 5.1 playback using my setup, for which 5.1 must use the dmix6 plug from my /etc/asound.conf. For example, with mplayer this is my command to playback w/5.1 sound:<br>
<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mplayer -screenh 1200 -screenw 1920 -ao alsa:device=plug=dmix6 -channels 6 -vf screenshot -delay -0.1 -fs</span><br><br><br>And in VLC, I need to cycle through the Audio Device to get to 5.1 (just a couple hits on the remote, no biggie).<br>
<br>I just went into setup > tv > osd menu editor and under the Video options, I see Audio Tracks checked, but I'm guessing I need something to control the device it plays back through. Just curious if I can achieve some means of cycling to the dmix6 plug with the internal player, or if I need to go the route of setting up pulse audio or something..<br>
<br>Thanks a lot<br>Bob<br>