Hi everyone here, this is my first post!
I am curious on how to get FreeBSD to play stereo sound in 7.1, so when I play a normal mono/stereo sound file, it's sound should be duplicated to all 8 channels. It shouldn't be a setting in a specific player, but default for all software trying to play sound.
This seems to work out of the box with Linux/ALSA, and with OpenBSD's sndio it's just a matter of starting the aucat daemon at boot.
So I wanted to know how I can do that in FreeBSD, whose OSS otherwise is a great sound system: It never does something odd on me, and I've been using it for quite some time now.
Can it be configured via a sysctl/mixer setting or do I have to start some kind of sound server (please not PulseCrap, that's one of the most unreliable pieces of software I have encountered).
Thanks in advance
Tom
I am curious on how to get FreeBSD to play stereo sound in 7.1, so when I play a normal mono/stereo sound file, it's sound should be duplicated to all 8 channels. It shouldn't be a setting in a specific player, but default for all software trying to play sound.
This seems to work out of the box with Linux/ALSA, and with OpenBSD's sndio it's just a matter of starting the aucat daemon at boot.
So I wanted to know how I can do that in FreeBSD, whose OSS otherwise is a great sound system: It never does something odd on me, and I've been using it for quite some time now.
Can it be configured via a sysctl/mixer setting or do I have to start some kind of sound server (please not PulseCrap, that's one of the most unreliable pieces of software I have encountered).
Thanks in advance
Tom