theYinYeti Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Is there an Open Source/Free Software way to listen to all the sound channels of the DVD (rear left, rear right, front left, front right)? What is the good sound card / chipset for that? Thanks, Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Yes. I personnally use an SBLive! 5.1, with the ALSA driver snd-emu10k1. I also use mplayer (taken from PLF sources, with all the necessary codecs and tools); type man mplayer and look for "channels" -- the option to have all channels is something like "-channels 6" if I remember correctly. You'll now you made it work when dialogues are output from the center speaker only (the fifth channel in 5.1). In short, it is not only possible, it works well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hi, That's good news! Especially when you see that the "SB Live 5.1 digital" is currently only 47 euro (or even less bought from internet?). What do you think about the "Guillemot Muse 5.1 DVD"? I've looked at the specs, and it looks to me like a clone of the above, but with 20% off the price. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I really don't know about the Guillemot Muse; you should check the state of ALSA support for it. Yes, SB Live! 5.1's can be pretty cheap; in fact I'm quite surprised about the 47 EU since my local computer store lists it for barely 45 $CAN (which is about 30 EU I guess)... maybe you're quoting the Audigy 5.1? Anyway, I can't tell for the Guillemot but Sound Blaster cards with the EMU10k1 chip can output 6-channels sound using the ALSA driver. Depending on your setup (e.g. analog vs digital speakers) you may have to tune the ALSA driver settings and mplayer's command line options, but it's really just a matter of reading mplayer's man page and spending a few minutes adjusting the dozens of sliders in alsamixer :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Had an sblive5.1, now have an audigy2, both work well with 5.1 or in my case, 4.0 surround. With mplayer you can do: gmplayer -channels 4 [file.avi] or whatever; with xine you can just set it up in the config panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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