Re: [Bino-list] Audio Specs

[thomas schorpp]

Hi Martin,

> Hi Tim!
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:15:41 +0000, Tim Sampson wrote:
> > On 26/11/2012 18:59, Martin Lambers wrote:
> > >> We have a client using Bino and they are requesting 7.1 audio. Is
> > >> there a way to provide 7.1 audio within a playable video file for
> > >> Bino. Thanks,
> > > This should work, except if your client wants S/PDIF output for AC-3
> > > and DTS passthrough. This requires some work before it will be
> > > supported; see also <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37039>.
> >
> > In what sense does it work? Does it work when the computer has a
> > built in sound card with several outputs for speakers? I'm one of
> > those people that wants to pass surround sound to my home theatre
> > system.
>
> OpenAL supports surround sound output, so if your sound card is
> configured for this, it should work.

According to which standard or which (consumer-) S/PDIF - device supports >2 
Channel besides AC3/DTS encoded, please?
Someone please get Alsa in for the Linux version, thanks.

y
tom

> The details differ between systems; on Linux you probably need to
> configure the default output device for surround mode via PulseAudio
> tools such as pavucontrol (in case this is not done automatically).
>
> Martin