[mythtv-users] mplayer sound problem

[Ma Begaj]

2008/4/11, Lord Darkhelmet <lord_darkhelmet at accesscomm.ca>:
> When trying to play a compressed video file with 6 channel audio through
>  mplayer it seems to be mixing up the audio channels.  I'm only using 2
>  channel analog audio from computer to stereo. Mplayer is outputting
>  either the center channel one of the front channel streams to the left
>  speaker and I believe one of the surround channel streams to the right
>  speaker.  Xine is downmixing the 6 channel audio to 2 channel audio just
>  fine but has video problems so I o not want to use it.  I tried the pan
>  option in mplayer config but it either crashed mplayer or just didn't
>  work.  Alsamixer is set to only 2 channel audio.  Anywhere else I should
>  be looking ?

use "mplayer -ao alsa:device=surround51 -channels 2"