http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-September/077877.html Any news on this problem? AC3 encoding works, but channels are not mapped correctly. -ao alsa -channels 6 -af channels=6:6:0:0:1:4:2:3:3:5:4:1:5:2,lavcac3enc=1:640 -lavdopts threads=2 ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family hwac3... Trying to force audio codec driver family ... Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/2.78% (ratio: 16000->576000) Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== [ac3 @ 0xbc7c20]No channel layout specified. The encoder will guess the layout, but it might be incorrect. [AO_ALSA] Format ac3be is not supported by hardware, trying default. AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback...