On Mon, 25.08.08 17:51, Achim Frase (achim.frase at googlemail.com) wrote: > > Am Montag, den 25.08.2008, 16:18 +0200 schrieb tyrchyus: > > Hi i'm an italian guy. I wrote a guide to set pulseaudio surround with > > a52 alsa-plugin. > > I want to know what do you think about and if it is the right way. > > > > link: http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/MarcoTacchini/Prove1 > > > > thanks > > > > tyrchyus > > > > Hello Tyrchyus, > > I can not answer your question but I am a bit curious what you are > doing. It looks a bit difficult to me. Don't get me wrong I only want to > understand what the reason is for all that. > > Is that a hardware specific solution, because I only edit > "default-sample-channels = 2" to 6 in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and also > turne up the volume of front, surround, Center, LFE in the gnome Alsa > mixer. After that surround sound is working like it should. I hear > stereo sound on all 6 channels without problems. I also have no problems > with AC3 sound if I watch a movie with totem. Marco apparently describes digital output of AC3 via SPDIF which is a different case then AC3 via Analaog audio. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4