Request for 7.1 audio support #55
Description
This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.
Reported in version: 2.0.0
Reported for operating system, platform: All, x86
Comments on the original bug report:
On 2006-06-11 04:38:49 +0000, Forest Hale wrote:
SDL has 5.1 audio support and I am requesting that 7.1 support be added, this should be very easy to do.
The full channel layout would be:
Front, Surround (aka Rear), Center/LFE, Side. (see also bug # 247 however)
On 2009-12-15 22:37:34 +0000, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
Changing bug priorities...
--ryan.
On 2013-05-21 00:48:00 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Ryan, can you take a look and see what's left for 2.0 release?
On 2013-05-21 21:44:30 +0000, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
As far as I know, 7.1 is supported now.
A brief check suggests these drivers are good to go:
- pulseaudio
- directsound
- xaudio2
- coreaudio
...which covers Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
These are problems, and might be important as fallbacks:
- winmm explicitly clamps to stereo (probably a limitation of the API).
- ALSA doesn't set up a channel swizzle for 7.1, and has a FIXME (see swizzle_alsa_channels() in src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c)
...other systems I didn't check (because who has a 7.1 setup on Android, or BeOS, or SunOS?).
--ryan.
On 2013-05-21 23:47:57 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Okay, I think once we have ALSA channel swizzling in, we're good to go.