#716: PA loses mono audio support when remixing is disabled
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Reporter: Sam Stone | Owner: lennart
Type: defect | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: daemon
Resolution: | Keywords: microphone, remixing, mono
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Changes (by Captain Chaos):
* keywords: microphone, remixing => microphone, remixing, mono
Comment:
Is anything happening on this?
If I understand it correctly, a pulseaudio user with more than two
loudspeakers currently has three choices:
1. Accept that all audio that plays is sent to all speakers, whether or
not that's appropriate
2. Accept that mono audio does not play at all
3. Jerry rig a complicated system with virtual devices, which will only
partly solve the problem (namely only for programs which allow you to
choose the device they play to)
To me all these options are unacceptable. People with surround sound
systems should not be punished by having their audio not work at all, or
be played over the wrong speakers. Instead, pulseaudio should
intelligently choose which speakers to direct the audio to.
I find the suggestion that remixing is needed to allow mono sound to be
played on 5.1 speakers a bit odd. Surely mono sound could be played over
the center speaker, no remixing required? Pulseaudio currently already
correctly plays stereo sound over just the front left and right speakers
when remixing is turned off, surely it would not be hard to similarly
direct mono channels to the center speaker?
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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/716#comment:5>
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