[mythtv-users] how to tell if 5.1 audio channels mapped correctly?

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 23:08:51 UTC 2010


Hi

On 8 November 2010 06:34, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote that speaker-test program.
> It tests ALSA.
> ALSA has a fixed channel ordering so that all applications can use the
> same order.
> If the speaker-test program is getting the order wrong, then the
> problem is one of:
> 1) Speaker wires connected wrongly.
> 2) ALSA driver bug.
>
> Another test to try is:
> speaker-test -twav -c6 -Dplug:surround51

he's using hdmi here..

>
> If speaker-test gets the order right, the bug is with the application.
> If speaker-test gets the order wrong, the bug is with ALSA.
>

Interesting post, thanks..


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