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authorLAGonauta <lagonauta@gmail.com>2018-03-28 10:33:38 -0300
committerJan Ekström <jeebjp@gmail.com>2018-04-15 00:57:01 +0300
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ao/openal: Add support for direct channels output
Uses OpenAL Soft's AL_DIRECT_CHANNELS_SOFT extension and can be controlled through a new CLI option, --openal-direct-channels. This allows one to send the audio data direrctly to the desired channel without effects applied.
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@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ Available audio output drivers are:
``openal``
Experimental OpenAL audio output driver
+ ``--openal-direct-channels=<yes|no>``
+ Enable OpenAL Soft's direct channel extension when available to avoid
+ tinting the sound with ambisonics or HRTF.
+ Channels are dropped when when they are not available as downmixing
+ will be disabled. Default: no.
+
.. note:: This driver is not very useful. Playing multi-channel audio with
it is slow.