[mythtv-users] Surround Sound Processing in Linux

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:22 +0000, lists at higgers.me.uk wrote:
> Can anyone comment on their setup if their setup is slightly unusual 
> and doesn't involve plain stereo into an amp or a digital feed into an amp?
> 
> ANy info on a non-standard audio setup might give me some hints on how to
> configure my system.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Steve.

The attached .asoundrc makes the default ALSA device be a 5.1 channel
surround sound device.  It works for me with an Epox motherboard with
Nvidia NForce and the snd_intel8x0 driver.

I use the attached wrapper script to get surround audio from Xine and
Mplayer when it's run by MythTV.  It lives in ~mythtv/bin, and in there
are symlinks to it named 'xine' and 'mplayer'.  PATH is set so that the
~/bin directory is searched first.  The .asound* files required by the
script are created by setting the mixer settings the way I want them and
then using 'alsactl' to dump them to the file.

I've found that DVD sound is much better - brighter - from Xine than
from MythTV's internal player.

-- 
Karl Hegbloom <karlheg at gmail.com>
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pcm.dmixs51 {
	type dmix
	ipc_key 1024
	ipc_key_add_uid false # let multiple users share
	ipc_perm 0660 # IPC permissions (octal, default 0600)
	slave {
		pcm "hw:0,0"
		rate 48000
		channels 6
		period_time 0
		period_size 1024
		buffer_time 0
		buffer_size 4096
	}
	bindings {
		0 0
		1 1
		2 4
		3 5
		4 2
		5 3
	}
}

pcm.!default {
	type plug
	slave {
		pcm "dmixs51"
	}
}

pcm.asym51 {
           type asym
           playback.pcm "dmixs51" 
           capture.pcm "hw:0,0" # this might be "dsnoop:0"
}

pcm.dsp0 {
         type plug
         slave.pcm "asym51"
}
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