#716: PA loses mono audio support when remixing is disabled ------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Reporter: Sam Stone | Owner: lennart Type: defect | Status: new Milestone: | Component: daemon Resolution: | Keywords: microphone, remixing, mono ------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- 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? -- Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/716#comment:5> PulseAudio <http://pulseaudio.org/> The PulseAudio Sound Server _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-tickets mailing list pulseaudio-tickets@mail.0pointer.de https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-tickets