On Thu, 12.06.08 20:53, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:36:16AM -0700, Matthew Patterson wrote: > > I have an update on this front. I downloaded a 8 channel wave file, and > > when I play it via the 8 channel sink I get perfect channel seperation. > > If I play the same file via one of the 2 channel sinks then I get the > > sound reproduced on outputs other than what that sink is tied to BUT the > > volumes are different making me think this is some kind of virtual > > surround. Does ALSA or pulse have the ability to cause this, or is this > > basically the sound card being annoying? > > Pulseaudio semi-intelligently makes stereo streams surround > streams, if you have a surround sound card. Unfortunately > this affects the streams from the remap sinks too (I think > this will be fixed real soon now in svn, if Lennart approves > the new behaviour). Fortunately the feature can be disabled > in daemon.conf (disable-remixing). I have now commited patch that makes remixing optional for remap sinks, controllable with the remix= parameter to the module. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
