On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 07:45:19PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > > > This is a known problem. While mpv and mplayer have options to turn > > the downmixing, it's not OK this to be manual. > ??? > > Cannot parse. > If you cannot write this in english, please say what's going on in french.
- the problem is known (playing a 5.1 track on stereo headphones sounds weird) - mpv and mplayer have and workaround for it: an option to turn on downmixing - having to turn on downmixing manually in every single program is not OK In other words, with the OpenBSD defaults, if you play a movie with a 5.1 audio stream, audio should be acceptable on headphones without manual tweaks. HTH > > I couldn't care less about "real time" mixing. I really want surround sound > on video... This thread was about downmixing surround to stereo. But, assuming you've the 5.1-capable audio interface (and all the speakers), what happens when you do: rcctl set sndiod flags -c0:5 rcctl restart sndiod then: mpv /path/movie_with_5.1_audio.mp4 You should get surround audio. If certain speakers don't work, send me your dmesg and the output of audioctl during playback
