Re: [Bino-list] Audio Specs

[Martin Lambers]

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.

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