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VLC's support for 7.1 is extremely limited, especially on OS X. Lack of hardware and samples is the simplest reason for this. Lack of importance the 2nd :( I have fixed 7.1 support in 9.8 and 1.0 (for osx). I have hardware device in development at the moment (USB 2.0 7.1 sound card) ;-), and wanted...

VLC should play those files better in 1.0, but you need to test.

Thanks for the reply. I built v1.0.0 (osx) from git repos and get very similar issues when playing a 8 channel wav

You really need to test VLC 1.0.0-dev to check those issues.

Thanks for the reply. Where can i get this from please? http://nightlies.videolan.org/ has been down for the last couple days for me.

Hi guys, (apologies if this is the wrong section) Im wondering if its possible to get 7.1 audio out of VLC? I have some backed up blu-rays in the form on m2ts files, but VLC will not play them (video or audio). The DVD was shoot 'em up with 7.1 DTS HD audio. Firstly, i guess, is VLS capable of playi...

Hi Guys, Im using VLC to help test an audio device capable of 7.1 audio and am having a few problems. Firstly I downloaded the 7.1 test wav from microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/creating71audio.aspx) this gave me some issues when played in VLC (although played ...