[MPlayer-users] A plea for LFE-help

Luis.F.Correia Luis.F.Correia at seg-social.pt
Fri Dec 12 11:06:07 CET 2003


> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello again.
> 
> I wrote a couple of days ago about my LFE problem. I want to 
> be able to 
> include the LFE-signals in the downmix made by liba52 while playing 
> 5.1-movies on my 2.0 system. Someone gave me the tip that the 
> audiofilter pan could help, and by reading the manual it does 
> feel like 
> this could be a solution. Maybe together with -af channels to route 
> sound from the LFE-channel to one (or both) of my front-speakers.

I just don't get it.

On a 2.0 system all you can have is two channels, nothing more.
The LFE channel from a DVD sound track has extremely low-range frequencies,
that if routed through normal speakers, can cause serious damage.

If you do have a 2.1 speaker set (two satelites and a Bass box), the
case is the same, the amplifier on the Bass Box will route the high-range
frequencies to the satelites and the low-range to the Bass box speaker.

So I simply cannot understand all the fuss!

Sorry! i just wanted to add my 0.02EUR...

> 
> However, I am not able to get this working. The manual feels 
> insufficient on it's descriptions - or maybe my computer doesn't do 
> what it is supposed to do. Therefor I hope that maybe someone of you 
> out there knows how to master the pan- and channels audiofilter to 
> solve my problem. People tell me that WinDVD and PowerDVD in Windows 
> does the LFE-trick, but I would never use Windows, and I am convinced 
> that mplayer can do it!
> 
> My hardware is a PowerBook G4 with Gentoo Linux and mplayer1.0-pre2.
> 
> Thank you for your time and help!
> 
> Regards,
> Jacob
> 
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