From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 08:05:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417661065676 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C158D8FC1A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke49 with SMTP id e49so931127eek.13 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:05:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hWfPTsmD3KHm2G27Z6obxMhuFphOSZa7kWXVwJbyVDk=; b=NVM/Ul+o11WSUOVeJtmV0/4DVEBWh/uFEB55E3OnUOmz8FKsute1rJCM91Koqu8eSZ Yx/7Qa8sOzFHTNsk8C7aTJ+jyAa9WlK4DwuK91XtVBQ1fxAP2/sHcweyfzLhFeE9Va2U 9qP0ho81ICjyaDyltigc9T+9AdCgrfIamfy+q5fArfH/34OpqkHpQxQbP0yYJ0sS5MMI NGHw3Kzwa6Zy21lMiNAnAUC6G+fPLO4u0usY+av9ptwIBiPISHGgokQvPj6oMUIycB2j wZ/1D0VxZ1Gyhr7i9844Q3oIPTTnaXHBqe21KO4+O06O/lHNY15hBabQ8akShs0lLfWt T2Gw== Received: by 10.14.37.201 with SMTP id y49mr471877eea.128.1339747519817; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Groseille.malikania.fr (197.21.102.84.rev.sfr.net. [84.102.21.197]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m46sm9943396eeh.9.2012.06.15.01.05.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FDAECF8.4080007@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:06:16 +0200 From: David Demelier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120602 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4FDA0B5E.4090901@gmail.com> <4FDAAF5E.4040500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FDAAF5E.4040500@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:16:58 +0000 Subject: Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:05:21 -0000 On 15/06/2012 05:43, Edward M wrote: > On 06/14/2012 09:03 AM, David Demelier wrote: >> I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get >> sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer. >> >> I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get >> sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1 >> >> Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help. >> >> Cheers, > > Sounds like the DVD surround audio is encoded in AC-3 Dolby Digital or > DTS. So a decorder is needed. > That's what mplayer says: ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000->576000) Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) What do you mean by "a decoder is needed"? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Cheers, -- David Demelier