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author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2016-01-20 17:12:08 +0100 |
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committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2016-01-20 17:12:08 +0100 |
commit | 930b0d1cf6f2ffa6bf3df516e120a395e1c60342 (patch) | |
tree | d31ef5f743b1c18324640bc3f237347473ca64cd /DOCS/man/options.rst | |
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audio: change --audio-channels default back to stereo
Too many problems. Well, actually it's just Linux audio systems which
cause problems, and exclusive audio access on other platforms.
In any case, it seems you have to do some manual configuration if you
want multichannel audio output.
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index ac235d4fc4..c76559c3c0 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -1093,8 +1093,8 @@ Audio This and enabling passthrough via ``--ad`` are deprecated in favor of using ``--audio-spdif=dts-hd``. -``--audio-channels=<number|layout>`` - Request a channel layout for audio output (default: auto). This will ask +``--audio-channels=<auto|number|layout>`` + Request a channel layout for audio output (default: stereo). This will ask the AO to open a device with the given channel layout. It's up to the AO to accept this layout, or to pick a fallback or to error out if the requested layout is not supported. @@ -1107,9 +1107,10 @@ Audio lists speaker names, which can be used to express arbitrary channel layouts (e.g. ``fl-fr-lfe`` is 2.1). - The default is ``--audio-channels=auto``, which tries to play audio using - the input file's channel layout. (Or more precisely, the output of the - audio filter chain.) (``empty`` is an accepted obsolete alias for ``auto``.) + ``--audio-channels=auto`` tries to play audio using the input file's + channel layout. There is no guarantee that the audio API handles this + correctly. See the HDMI warning below. + (``empty`` is an accepted obsolete alias for ``auto``.) This will also request the channel layout from the decoder. If the decoder does not support the layout, it will fall back to its native channel layout. |