[MPlayer-users] Alsa + 5.1 surround

[Stefan Lange]

Stoic at chello.nl wrote:
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> PS: I understand that without native 6 channel support, the rear
> speakers do not actually function as "rear sound". It is just that in
> windows I was used to hear sound from the rear speakers at all times
> :o).
> 
The windows drivers probably just mirror the front content to rear. You 
could try to play around with the various -af options of mplayer (see 
Documentation) to do similar things.

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