No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card

[David Demelier]

On 21/06/2012 05:55, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2012-06-18 20:27, David Demelier skrev:
>> On 15/06/2012 13:25, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> On 2012-06-15 10:06, David Demelier wrote:
>>>> On 15/06/2012 05:43, Edward M wrote:
>>>>> On 06/14/2012 09:03 AM, David Demelier wrote:
>>>>>> I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get
>>>>>> sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get
>>>>>> sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like the DVD surround audio is encoded in AC-3 Dolby Digital or
>>>>> DTS. So a decorder is needed.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's what mplayer says:
>>>>
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
>>>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000->576000)
>>>> Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AO: [oss] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "a decoder is needed"?
>>>
>>> Have you tried vlc or xine?
>>
>> It does not work with VLC too, do you need to tweak some settings?
>
> Try $ vlc filename
>
> I've tried a file that gave this error
>
> [0x2bb4b43c] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc
> `mp4v'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

There is just this error:

[0x8373b4e70] xcb_xv generic error: no available XVideo adaptor

But this is due to my modern graphic card (radeon 5670)

-- 
David Demelier