Re: [orca-list] 5.1 surround sound

[Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de>]

On Setting Orange, day 24 of Confusion 3174, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Does anyone know how to configure surround sound either in gnome or in a
> text-console?

If your decoder/amplifier is digitally connected to your sound card, you
can simply instruct mplayer to send audio data in pass-through
mode. Following is the mplayer command to watch a video file which contains
an AC3 audio track:

mplayer -ac hwac3 <file>

If your file contains more than one audio track, you can select the
 desired track with the -aid <num> option.

HTH

  Henning