5.1 Analog Audio

[einstein_314]

Hey guys, I posted this in the XBMC Live section by mistake... (was trying to follow rules and search first...which I did and found a thread....but didn't notice it was in the Live section - oops). So here it is again. I found several threads on 5.1 analog audio but nothing that had any answers...usually more questions than answers.

I have a Auzentech Prelude Cinema sound card which supports DTS Connect (which takes all analog audio and converts to digital DTS which is then sent out via coax to my home theater receiver). So I would like to use analog output....but with multichannel audio. Right now all my audio is being downsampled to stereo in XBMC.

When I enable analogmultichannel in the advancedsettings.xml I do get multichannel output, but the channels are all mixed up. From what I can tell, my center channel is mapped to rear-left, rear-right has nothing coming out and I'm not sure what the fronts are doing. There is sound, but I don't know which channels they are.

Is there anyway to fix this? Media Player Classic works fine, everything is output to the right channels, so it's definitely a XBMC glitch (mind you I don't think multichannel audio is fully implemented yet so it's understandable).

Oh and I'm using the atlantis 8.10 build on windows vista 32bit.

Other than that, I love XBMC. It's everything I ever wanted out of a media center (except 5.1 audio )

[alanwww1]

Hi !

There is another thread about this problem and i also created a ticket for this here :

http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/5452

the thread is here:

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=41551&highlight=analog

The ticket is not assigned yet, but i hope devs pick up this problem because i think it won't be too hard to fix it and it could make things lot better with analog multichannel audio and LPCM over HDMI connected equippments.

[Dwolf]

I'm also curious if this is fixed yet; I too would prefer to use multichannel analog if possible

[ashlar]

I'm also curious if this is fixed yet; I too would prefer to use multichannel analog if possibleIt is not fixed. We need more Windows developers.

[Dannydeman]

I understand it's hard to get enough manpower for this kinda things in such a big (free) project. Does it work with Linux though? Also, this is the only reason I wont use XBMC at the moment, everything else is working so perfect.

[ashlar]

I understand it's hard to get enough manpower for this kinda things in such a big (free) project. Does it work with Linux though? Also, this is the only reason I wont use XBMC at the moment, everything else is working so perfect.I think so. Linux has more developers on board. :sniffle:

[Dannydeman]

I am asking in the Boxee forum if they managed to fix the problem, so they can share there knowledge :)