Re: Ogle audio problem?

Mon Apr 12 2004, Logan, Heidi and Bick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get Ogle running successfully on an AMD2600, nvidia 
> geforce4, running Redhat 8.0. Using the gui a few screems flash by and I 
> am none the wiser. Using the debug option on the text client, the output 
> includes the following passage, and then proceeds to shut everything 
> down. There doesn't appear to be anything on Ogle site telling me what 
> to do. Any ideas?
> 
Yeah, there was (is) a bug in Ogles LPCM handling.  Though you seem to have
stayed clear of that and instead you encoundered a defiency in our handling
of multichannel audio.  You audio card seem to be setup to use 4 channel
output and the DVD only has 2 channel LPCM audio (at this point atleast).
We haven't done any code to converst (or pad) to 4 channels.

You should be able to workaround this by editing the oglerc configuration.
See 'man oglerc' for documentation.  I'll give what I belive should work
here as an example (the file to change should be listed in the man page).
The speakers section is commented out (starts with <!--) and ends several
lines later with -->).  Remove those lines and keep the following as your
speakers section: 

    <speakers>
      <channel_config>
        <chtype>Left</chtype>
        <chtype>Right</chtype>
      </channel_config>
      <channel_config>
        <chtype>Left</chtype>
        <chtype>Right</chtype>
        <chtype>RearLeft</chtype>
        <chtype>RearRight</chtype>
      </channel_config>
    </speakers>

This should make Ogle use stereo for 2 channel audio and 4 channel output
for other multichannel audio.  If you only have two speakers attached
to your audio card/computer, then only keep the first channel_config.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Håkan