It seems that the only device a mono stream can be played on is the "default" pcm device.
Devices like "front" and "rear" are stereo only devices.
It would be nice if alsa-lib would open one of these devices, and if the application tries to set 1 channel instead of 2, then somehow make alsa-lib do the duplication of the channels.
A similar thing should happen for "surround40" device. If 1 channel is asked for, alsa-lib should duplicate it for all channels. If 2 channels are asked for, then alsa-lib should create 4 channels automatically.
alsa-lib seems to manage to do this sort of thing for sample rates, and sample formats, why not number of channels ?
Cheers James
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