On Sat, 20.10.07 12:12, Alex Malinovich (demonbane at the-love-shack.net) wrote: > The one thing to note here is that this setup works great for surround > movies in mplayer. However, watching them in Totem actually requires a > DIFFERENT setup since mplayer and totem seem to have different ideas > about what channels they should play audio to. So for totem, I use: > > load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0 sink_name=alsa_front channel_map=front-left,front-right rate=48000 > load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1 sink_name=alsa_rear channel_map=side-left,side-right rate=48000 > load-module module-combine sink_name=combined master=alsa_front slaves=alsa_rear channel_map=front-left,front-right,side-left,side-right channels=4 > set-default-sink combined Until recently GStreamer (Totem) didn't export any info about the channel order whatsoever. This has changed now. And if you get a fresh gst-pulse snapshot from SVN you'll find that the channel mapping should work correctly out of the box. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4