From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 18:07:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB7B106566B for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:07:26 +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 7FE3A8FC1C for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke49 with SMTP id e49so1941989eek.13 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:07:18 -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:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5obh139rSsjqoz2pF/mt9jh4+/aUF9yPRGEPHcP8c8o=; b=vxdWp8RAunA9CNhzsjn0rT0pmGEnYDYoqEfw11QAWmZ0rKWzfdqBybpyLSlohtP8dH 0KdpqFmVqh1wttK7gwdwekoonz/S8cP9nkNhwXKTgqj5UcyDz1xIuE6KxjKYiKdAVPkY nnjB4DNpWQj9+C91mw3EeApJzb6R86eILmZqPQjDGalK8LbtIr7QWvVZZPDKOhFc+De4 6TfppDCYUMzyk+LYMLZ5DXi4BMNEnMP1+sDkTVQycioMmNSMxJyoAQmEL56u0Tzx21Fw ADrArCbLwfBSJ7HlT+6TonjlK9+UAtyTAEAQUGVvV66hC0oE1F4OwguakOCX+1jTjZ+r 8K6Q== Received: by 10.14.47.138 with SMTP id t10mr3656709eeb.133.1340042837973; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:07:17 -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 a16sm64702311eeg.0.2012.06.18.11.07.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FDF6E58.2050204@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:07:20 +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: Bernt Hansson References: <4FDA0B5E.4090901@gmail.com> <4FDAAF5E.4040500@gmail.com> <4FDAECF8.4080007@gmail.com> <4FDB1BB0.8060800@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <4FDB1BB0.8060800@bananmonarki.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:51:56 +0000 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:07:26 -0000 On 15/06/2012 13:25, Bernt Hansson wrote: > On 2012-06-15 10:06, David Demelier wrote: >> 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"? > > Have you tried vlc or xine? Seen in multimedia/mplayer/Makefile.shared: CONFIGURE_ARGS= --cc="${CC}" \ [..snip..] --disable-liba52 \ That's probably why mplayer won't play surround sound, I'll try with VLC tonight. Cheers, -- David Demelier