[pulseaudio-discuss] Channel Mode mixer element: 6ch vs. 8ch

[Daniel Chen]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Simplest solution would just be to force this to 8ch all the time but if
> that doesn't work we'll have to be smarter (enabling 8ch only when using
> surround71 and setting it to 6ch at all other times).

We need to be smarter.  Other codecs have a choice of 2ch, 6ch, 8ch
(as relevant), and setting it undesirably/incorrectly results in
channels being mapped to incorrect outputs.

Best,
-Dan