Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi y'all. > > My media box has 6 channel output LF,RF,LR,RR,C,SW which I'm using with > ALSA. Mplayer plays through all channels fine (settings in > ~/.mplayer/config), but VDR sourced audio only plays in stereo from the > LR,RF output. > > Given that there is no way to play 'real' surround sound from pvrinput > sourced audio, what is the easiest way to 'copy' the audio to the other > channels, so I at least get sound out all the speakers? > > Hmm, perhaps this is a setting in xine...? The easiest way is to set a mixer option, provided that your card has one. Check with alsamixer for a mixer switch named "Duplicate Front", "Surround", or similar. If there is no such option, I believe this can somehow be achieved with alsa config files as well. -- Anssi Hannula
