Re: Downmixing 5.1 to 2.1 with Xonar D1 card?

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Chris Rankin wrote:
>         slave {
>                 pcm "plughw:0"
>                 channels 3
>         }

Please note that the hardware does not support three channels; you will
get another conversion here (run aplay with -v to see details).

> This
>  seems to do a reasonable job, but has a fatal flaw - it cannot share
> the hardware with the "default" 2.1 PCM device! In fact, it takes at
> least 5 seconds for the "default" device to surrender the hardware so
> that xine can open my "51to21" device instead.
>
> Is there a way of using the dmix plugin so that these two distinct PCM devices can share the hardware, please?

Replace "plughw:0" with "dmix:0".  This will give you the two channels
of the standard dmix device; if you want to output four channels, you
also have to redefine the dmix device used by "default".


Regards,
Clemens

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