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Request change in handling of multi-channel
dtc:
--- Quote from: thecrow on February 10, 2018, 08:10:54 am ---OK here is another example then 4.0.
Is that LF, RF, LS, RS or is it L, C, R, S?
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This example seems like it is as much a receiver/DAC issue a anything else. It is not an order issue. As Kal says above, putting 4.0 into a 5.1 wrapper is a solution that avoids such issues.
This has gotten too far off topic to be useful, at least for me.
EDIT : IF S stands for Sub, I agree with RDJames. If it stands for Surround (Side) then it is a very unusual format. S is usually Surround or Side in these discussions. Sub should be called LFE or Sub for clarity.
tbng:
For R D James
You wrote, "So if you manually select 2.0 in DSP Studio your processor receives a 2 channel input, and if you select 5.1 it receives a 5.1 input, but when you select "source number of channels" it always receives a 5.1 signal?"
1. If I use source number of channels, two-channel sources play as expected but multi-channel records will not. When I try playing a multi-channel recording with source number of channels engaged, JRiver demands I change to a two-channel zone configuration and offers to do it for me if I click yes but never does it send out a 5.1 package.
kr4:
--- Quote from: dtc on February 09, 2018, 05:36:47 pm ---This seems to be the issue here. I am not currently set up to test this, but do others see the same thing? That Source Number of Channels will not play back a multi-channel source? This does not seem right to me. Could it be an HDMI issue with the Meridian HD621 HDMI interface?
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Not in my experience. I no longer have an HD621, so I cannot refresh and confirm.
Hendrik:
For video playback, LAV Audio automatically puts any "odd" layouts into a standard layout container by adding empty channels, which should avoid such issues, would such an option for audio help?
ie. 3.0/4.0/4.1/5.0/etc would all become 5.1, and 6.0 would become 6.1 or 7.1 (6.1 is sometimes badly supported as well, and very few people actually have a rear/surround center).
Of course this might still prevent an external processor to process a 3.0 signal as it was 3.0, instead it would see a 5.1 signal, but most processors would likely not be able to do anything with 3.0 or 4.0 anyway, but only stereo.
Another possibility would be having an option to disable re-mixing of stereo streams, and only mix anything with more channel into the selected output format - which should also achieve what people seem to be asking for here.
thecrow:
--- Quote from: dtc on February 10, 2018, 08:29:50 am ---EDIT : IF S stands for Sub, I agree with RDJames. If it stands for Surround (Side) then it is a very unusual format. S is usually Surround or Side in these discussions. Sub should be called LFE or Sub for clarity.
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S stands for mono surround and is NOT an unusual format at all it is the original Dolby Surround format and was used on movies before Dolby 5.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Pro_Logic
A list of standard speaker layouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound#Standard_speaker_channels
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