[xine-user] Need help with surround sound

[Derek S. <mai...@sc...>]

I'm using xine as my DVD player in MythTV and would appreciate some help in setting up surround sound. I'm using a C Media CM8738 card with 5.1 speakers. Soundcard detection works fine and I can hear sound from all speakers.

In the xine config file, I've changed the speaker configuration to "Surround 5.1". What I'm getting now is background sounds from the centre speaker, bass from the bass speaker and nothing from the other speakers, no voices, etc.

I feel there's some problem with how surround sound channels are being mapped to speaker outputs but I'm not familiar with how linux handles sound. Can someone tell me how I track down the problem and fix it?

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Best regards,
Derek