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alsa-plugins package

  1. Bug #197957
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 197957

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Mike Mestnik (cheako) wrote :

This contains the authors original release statement.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=48441

Near the end of this thread it's clear that the code was pulled from xbmc and it doesn't really say why, other then the "usual" channel mapping issue. Many programs don't use the same 5.1 channel mapping, so it's not possible to correct this in an ALSA plugin.