[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Proof of concept extrasurround plugin

[Stephen Davies]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Kis Gergely wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 05:06:07PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 April 2002 15:55, Kis Gergely wrote:
> > > I added a sochans option for the pl_surround plugin.
> > > Usage:
> > > mplayer -aop list=surround:sochans=6 filename
> > why not reuse -channels switch?
> The -channels switch talks to the audio decoder. It would confuse users, if
> we used it in this situation too. 

In a way the pl_surround IS the audio decoder.

I routinely do -channels 4 -aop list=surround switches.  Where there is an
AC3 audio it does the multichannel and pl_surround disables itself.  Where
there isn't, pl_surround does surround decoding.

Steve