[Wine] 5.1 sound

[James McKenzie]

On 12/14/11 3:46 PM, Lopov wrote:
> vitamin wrote:
>> Lopov wrote:
>>> I disagree, a majority of users do use 5.1 even 7.1 sound
>> That majority will be you, and that other person who opened the bug... Every other Wine user would be a minority I guess.
>>
>> Of course windows has a leg up on Wine. Most everything that produces>2 sound channels is proprietary, closed technology covered top to bottom with 1,000s of patents (esa, dvd, blu-ray). At least Windows good for something (watching movies and playing games). You can do everything else on Linux.
>>
>> Joking aside, the reason it's not implemented is no one _really_ needs it. And those who needs it are not vocal enough, or rich enough.
>
> Wow you really presume to talk for "everyone" and still do, that's why I said the majority cause no one knows its your opinion against mine, and you don't have to be rich to have 5.1 sound geez get   a grip, you simply don't want to implement it cause of BS excuses, so just tell the truth and stop trying to speak for everyone when you don't know what you're talking about.
>
I'm going to have to side with Vitamin on this.  All I have is a $499 
set of headphones (they are Bose in case you were wondering) and they 
sound pretty damn good.  I don't need or could legally use a thundering 
subwoofer.   Yes, some folks want this, but the vast majority of 
computer users don't and can't.

Of course, you are free to submit/vote for this feature, but I doubt it 
is really high on any developer's list of things to do today.  Getting 
sound fixed so that it runs properly and with the various species of 
sound systems (ALSA, OSS, JACK, Pulseaudio) is much, much higher 
priority.  And maybe when it does, we will have more than two sound 
channels....

James