Re: [xine-devel] Improving xine's support for 5.1

[xi <ctr...@fr...>]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to try and improve xine's support for a speaker arrangement 
> of 5.1
> I would like to implement some post audio plugin that would convert 
> whatever comes from the decoders into 5.1 sound.
> E.g. Playing a normal CD with 2 channel PCM.
> We would use digital filters to generate the .1 LFE channel, and dolby 
> surround to create center and rear sounds.
> 
> mplayer currently supports these types of filters, and it would be nice 
> if xine could do the same.
> 
> Does anyone have ideas about how to achieve this?
> 
> I am going to start by adding a "select speaker arrangement" config 
> item. This will replace the current multitude of tick boxes for 4.0, 
> 4.1,5.0,5.1.
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 
> 

Hello,

I would have one feature request : would it be possible to have a test 
procedure ?
For example, you select rear left speaker, you press a test button and 
it produces a beep.

Thanks,
					Xavier