--On 24 December 2017 16:37 -0500 Len Moskowitz
<lenmoskow...@optonline.net> wrote:

> The consensus seems to be that the current release of VLC 2.2.8 can't
> do it easily, if at all.

VLC plays my quad files to my square array without any special setting
up at all, and this should generalise to any number of speakers that
can be specified to Windows.

I believe that what you need (this is entirely Windows oriented) is:

(1) A sound driver that accepts multichannel input through the Windows
interface, which you then configure in the control panel sound applet
as a 5.1 device (you can test the speakers there, too).  At present I
have it configured as a quad device; I could test setting 5.1 for use
with six speakers next week.  

(2) This can be the Windows default device (which as you'd expect VLC
uses by default), or if not, you can tell VLC to use the specific
device required - I've done it both ways.

(3) The multichannel file needs to have a speaker mask that will link
the channels to the "5.1" speakers in an appropriate way - you will
need to contrive the speaker connection to match, of course.  I use
WaveLab to make the file, which can have its multichannel setup
arranged for various possible masks.  Or Richard Dobson's MultiChannel
Toolkit contains programs to set a mask and to reorder channels if that
helps.

(4) VLC will then play the channels to the Windows inputs according to
the mask settings.

It happens that my device (MOTU UltraLite) does not have a proper
multichannel Windows driver, but I have been able to use a third-party
virtual audio cable to get around that.

Paul

-- 
Paul Hodges

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