Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 8176:15fa4667cddf
-channels description expanded, patch by gabor <gabor@realtime.sk>.
| author | diego |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:17:58 +0000 |
| parents | bf5d1da56ecd |
| children | 1f00a3d29b20 |
| files | DOCS/mplayer.1 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/mplayer.1 Tue Nov 12 23:41:32 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/mplayer.1 Wed Nov 13 01:17:58 2002 +0000 @@ -394,17 +394,23 @@ . .TP .B \-channels <number> -Change the number of playback channels. +Change the number of playback channels, defaults to '2' if not specified. If the number of output channels is bigger than the number of input channels -empty channels are inserted (except mixing from mono to stereo, then the mono -channel is repeated in both of the output channels). -If the number of output channels is smaller than the number of input channels -the exceeding channels are truncated. +empty channels are inserted (unless mixing from mono to stereo, then the mono +channel is repeated in both output channels). +If the number of output channels is smaller than the number of input channels, +results depend on the audio decoder (\-afm). +Mplayer asks the decoder to decode the audio into as many channels as +specified. Now it's up to the decoder to fulfill the requirement. If the +decoder outputs more channels than requested, the exceeding channels are +truncated. This is usually only important when playing videos with AC3 audio +(like DVDs). In that case liba52 does the decoding by default and correctly +downmixes the audio into the requested number of channels. .I NOTE: .br -This option is honored by codecs (ac3 only) filters (surround) and ao drivers -(oss at least). +This option is honored by codecs (AC3 only) filters (surround) and ao drivers +(OSS at least). .br Available options are: