> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ aplay CHCENTER.WAV
> > aplay: test_wavefile:689: can't play not PCM-coded WAVE-files
> 
> ac3 is a proprietory format. I doubt alsa has a codec for it. Do you
> have an ac3 codec anywhere on your system?
> 
> Volker

good point, well mplayer claims to.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ mplayer -ac help|grep ac3

ac3         libac3    working   AC3-libac3  [libac3]
hwac3       hwac3     working   AC3 through SPDIF
hwdts       hwac3     working   DTS through SPDIF
atrac3      acm       problems  Sony ATRAC3  [atrac3.acm]

but mplayer thinks its ogg/vorbis, then cans out:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ mplayer CHLFE.WAV
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow
77 audio & 189 video codecs
Playing CHLFE.WAV.
Cache fill:  2.80% (235076 bytes)    Audio file detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libvorbis] Ogg/Vorbis audio decoder
OggVorbis: initial (identification) header broken!
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0xFFFE.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Exiting... (End of file)

never mind i will extract an exciting piece of audio from a dvd, there
should be a scene from Star Wars that has plenty of 3d sound (those old
sound tracks were remixed to 5.1 for release on dvd).

> 
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