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| author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2015-07-25 22:44:06 +0200 |
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| committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2015-07-25 22:44:06 +0200 |
| commit | 616d1510a71228e5b87a19a7b65dbeba36e57462 (patch) | |
| tree | f14b78a894e9a7fd82a5197ea201ba345fd5dd00 /DOCS | |
| parent | 95b930f8661c5967206739d3d5a6728191393817 (diff) | |
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manpage: document --audio-channels=auto caveats
This is an unfortunate fact of life. Maybe making this the default
wasn't such a good idea after all.
Also update etc/example.conf. It used an obsolete alias for "auto".
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 7a66b0f798..da40cadb97 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -1028,6 +1028,14 @@ 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. + .. admonition:: Warning + + Using ``auto`` can cause issues when using audio over HDMI. The OS will + typically report all channel layouts that _can_ go over HDMI, even if + the receiver does not support them. If a receiver gets an unsupported + channel layout, random things can happen, such as dropping the + additional channels, or adding noise. + ``--audio-display=<no|attachment>`` Setting this option to ``attachment`` (default) will display image attachments (e.g. album cover art) when playing audio files. It will |