--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 _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
