Package: libasound2-plugins
Version: 1.0.20-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I'm using totem-gstreamer on a laptop, and lately I've been trying to play
surround videos through stereo speakers without success.
I heard of vdownmix and tried to use it, but the info given in the vdownmix.txt
file didn't help. I think it's important to let users know how to use this
plugin with totem-gstreamer since it's the default video player for Gnome. I
noticed while googling the problem that many people are failing to play
surround sound in Totem (I couldn't find any help searching on the web, not
even in the Alsa Wiki), and some of them resort to PulseAudio for that.
I have finally succeeded in setting this up, and I thought I'll give you the
setup so you can update the documentation, making it available for other people
to use. So here is the alternative I found to use vdownmix in totem (should
work with any other player too) without PulseAudio:
pcm.!downmix51 {
type vdownmix
slave.pcm "surround51"
}
pcm.!default "plug:downmix51"
I don't kown if the example given in vdownmix.txt is really false, but the fact
is it didn't work on my HDA Intel enabled laptop (Thinkpad X60 btw).
Hope this help.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libasound2-plugins depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.20-3 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090609-2 ffmpeg codec library
ii libc6 2.9-24 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libjack0 0.116.2+svn3592-2 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii libpulse0 0.9.15-4.1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-2 audio rate conversion library
libasound2-plugins recommends no packages.
libasound2-plugins suggests no packages.
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