> > I guess it depends. I would be _quite_ shocked if I played a stereo > > soundfile and I got output over all eight speakers of a couple of > > setups I have around here. > > I understand that, having worked in semi-pro recording facilities > before. But an awful lot of people aren't thinking about how many > channels of data are in their MP3 files or on their CDs. They expect > (rightly or wrongly) that they'll have a better experience if they > have more than 2 monitors. They got a new set of 5.1 or 7.1 monitors > for Christmas and they want to try out all their music on them.
Then it should be easy to set it up that way, well documented and so on and so forth. Hmmm, there is a predefined 5.1 pcm name in alsa, right?, maybe that should replicate channels in stereo, even if IMHO it is the wrong thing to do by default. -- Fernando ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
