Bug#528832: totem-gstreamer does not support surround sound

[Apelete Seketeli]

Just a quick update on surround sound support with totem, and with
stereo speakers.

I actually succeeded in playing a 5.1 surround video through my stereo
speakers, but that involved the vdownmix alsa plugin and was messy at
best.
When surround sound is activated through the use of vdownmix there's
no more mixing (only one application at a time can output sound), and
everything that's not surround to begin with just sound awful. So what
I was doing was basically activating surround sound when I was about
to watch a surround sound movie, and deactivate it as soon as I was
finished.
Told you it was messy...

Since it proves that surround could be obtained in Totem by fiddling
with alsa, it's perhaps something best discussed with the alsa dev
team...not sure on that one...

Let me know if more info is needed.
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Apelete Seketeli <apelete at seketeli.org>