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author | Oswald Pan <oswald.pan@gmail.com> | 2017-11-19 06:19:04 +0000 |
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committer | Kevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com> | 2017-11-19 11:34:10 -0800 |
commit | ae05d1f62cfae47e92d7d558fee096321b26fc94 (patch) | |
tree | 26088d3ca71af971548d74ed7d86f571168b06b0 /DOCS | |
parent | 4569f39da5a82f83b331dec9253a4dc5b2aec426 (diff) | |
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manpage: clarify bitstreaming options
Changes:
List other (commonly used) bitstreamed formats.
Clarify that WASAPI can only output multichannel PCM in exclusive mode.
Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 2093f51b8c..7a91a5069c 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -1224,11 +1224,11 @@ Audio List of codecs for which compressed audio passthrough should be used. This works for both classic S/PDIF and HDMI. - Possible codecs are ``ac3``, ``dts``, ``dts-hd``. Multiple codecs can be - specified by separating them with ``,``. ``dts`` refers to low bitrate DTS - core, while ``dts-hd`` refers to DTS MA (receiver and OS support varies). - If both ``dts`` and ``dts-hd`` are specified, it behaves equivalent to - specifying ``dts-hd`` only. + Possible codecs are ``ac3``, ``dts``, ``dts-hd``, ``eac3``, ``truehd``. + Multiple codecs can be specified by separating them with ``,``. ``dts`` + refers to low bitrate DTS core, while ``dts-hd`` refers to DTS MA (receiver + and OS support varies). If both ``dts`` and ``dts-hd`` are specified, it + behaves equivalent to specifying ``dts-hd`` only. In earlier mpv versions you could use ``--ad`` to force the spdif wrapper. This does not work anymore. @@ -1409,6 +1409,10 @@ Audio If the channel layout of the media file (i.e. the decoder) and the AO's channel layout don't match, mpv will attempt to insert a conversion filter. + You may need to change the channel layout of the system mixer to achieve + your desired output as mpv does not have control over it. Another + work-around for this on some AOs is to use ``--audio-exclusive=yes`` to + circumvent the system mixer entirely. .. admonition:: Warning |