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#1130: Optical surround sound enabled by default
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Written by l0b0 the 29 Feb 08 at 08:37.
Category: Multimedia.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Optical 5.1 audio (aka. IEC958 / S/PDIF) is supported since Gutsy, but not by default. The instructions are quite obscure, and should not be necessary for such basic functionality.
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Brewboy wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 09:20
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If your smart enough to implement optical 5.1 surround sound, you can probably figure out turning on a particular device in the sound options. Not that it wouldn't be nice to make it simpler, it just seems low priority right now.
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Auzy wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:34
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Thats dangerous because optical I thought was only 1 way. By enaling it by default, all users with optical may not get sound by default. No operating system defaults to SPDIF for a good reason.
Vote this up if you want to break sound for the majority of people.
Vote this down if you want to support most peoples speakers/headphones (laptops for instance mostly have optical output, but built in analog speakers, so they will all not work out of the box).
Maybe make it easier to change, but for now, anyone who votes this up has NOT thought this through.
This idea I can guarentee wont be approved by the ubuntu team at all.. Vote it down to save them the effort of having to manually reject it
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Auzy wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:53
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Err, all users without rather.. Thats what i get for typing at midnight
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l0b0 wrote on the 15 May 08 at 14:47
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It should be possible to send output to digital and analog channels simultaneously. If not, that's a more serious problem that needs to be tackled first. But fundamentally there's no reason why digital and analog can't be enabled at the same time.
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