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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 7ae04a3b26..4bc7054ba6 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ Audio ``--dtshd`` and ``--no-dtshd`` are deprecated aliases. ``--audio-channels=<number|layout>`` - Request a channel layout for audio output (default: stereo). This will ask + Request a channel layout for audio output (default: auto). 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. @@ -945,9 +945,9 @@ Audio lists speaker names, which can be used to express arbitrary channel layouts (e.g. ``fl-fr-lfe`` is 2.1). - You can use ``--audio-channels=auto`` to disable this. In this case, the AO - use the channel layout as the audio filter chain indicates. (``empty`` is - an accepted obsolete for ``auto``.) + 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``.) 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. |