Hi, I detected a problem when I play a 5.1 audio file with some applications (like VLC) My audio card is "maudio revolution 7.1" connected to a "5.1 sound kit" In my first test, "speaker-test -c 6 -l 1 -t wav" command, I hear only 2 channels (Side Left and Side Right). So, I created a .asoundrc file with these lines (I found these informations on alsa wiki): pcm.!default { type plug slave ice1724_S32_LE; } pcm.duplicate { type plug slave.pcm "surround51" slave.channels 6 route_policy duplicate } pcm_slave.ice1724_S32_LE { pcm surround51; format S32_LE; } I test "speaker-test -c 6 -l 1 -t wav" command. I hear all channels in right speakers ("Side Left" on my side left speaker, etc ...) Now I test a 5.1 audio file with VLC. I hear this : "Front Left" --> OK (Front Left speaker) "Front Right" --> OK (Front Right speaker) "Center" --> Side Left speaker "Side Right" --> LFE speaker "Side Left" --> Center speaker "LFE" --> Side Right speaker So I created a new topic on VLC forum (http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=96023) due to know if this problem comes from VLC or alsa. A VLC developper answer me : "VLC and the ALSA device disagree on the channel mapping. I am not sure what the official ALSA order is." Can you help me ? Regards, Aurelien ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user