[dmix] time for a default up to 8 channels?

[sylware]

Isn't the time for dmix to try to configure by default the audio hardware with as many channels as possible up to 8 (at min 48/44.1 kHz, 16bits/float32)?

The channel map should be fine nowadays, shouldn't it?

[perexg]

Not all hardware support 8 channels, so it would require to add a fallback code to the dmix code.

[sylware]

@perexg

It is not what I said: try to open as many channels as possible up to 8 by default.

I tested alsa-lib (without checking the code), this seems to be what the lib does if you change the default dmix number of channels.