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pulseaudio - How to enable 5.1 sound on Ubuntu 20.04 - …
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304002/how-to-enable-5-1-sound-on-ubuntu-20-04
Assuming you have true 5.1 speakers and they are properly connected: From etc/pulse/, copy daemon.conf and default.pa to your user's home folder. (If you've altered these configs previously, copy from your backup of the original files):
Having Pulseaudio downmix Surround 5.1 to Stereo | Blog of ...
https://thedarkgod.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/having-pulseaudio-downmix-surround5-1-to-stereo/
After a good deal of gnashing of teeth, I finally managed to get Pulseaudio to Do The Right Thing™ (which is what the thing I want, not what it wants): downmixing Surround 5.1 to Stereo.. The problem was simple: I had a lot of lossless FLAC files containing Surround 5.1 audio (that is, 6 channels).
How to configure 5.1 sound for PulseAudio?
https://sourceforge.net/p/sixfireusb/discussion/1341785/thread/7e16113b/
So how can I set up 5.1 analog out for pulseaudio, I don't inted to use jack. For some cheap USB 7.1 sound cards reconnecting them helps and all configuration options are shown in pavucontrol, but not for the 6fire. How can I achieve to get 5.1 sound from the 6fire? Do I have to combine outputs like described in the pulse audio wiki?
Getting DTS 5.1+ sound via S/PDIF or HDMI using PulseAudio ...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2021/07/25/getting-dts-5-1-sound-via-s-pdif-or-hdmi-using-pulseaudio/
Getting DTS 5.1+ sound via S/PDIF or HDMI using PulseAudio While PCs still usually provide a full set of analog jacks capable of outputting a 5.1 audio, other modern hardware (such as TVs) is usually limited to digital audio outputs (and sometimes analog outputs limited to stereo sound). These outputs are either S/PDIF (coaxial or optical) or HDMI.
VLC Pulse Audio 5.1 Patch [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums
https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-997799.html
Hi, Ive made a patch to the VLC pulse audio plugin that allows it to output 5.1, 4.0, 2.0 and, 1.0 based on the input streams channel count. It works perfectly with all the audio/video files I have tested it with. I was wondering who I need to contact to get the patch either merged or adapted to the main plugin as I have seen quite a few posts asking for this whilst I myself was …
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