S/PDIF 5.1 channel mixer?
Posted: 11 Nov 2020 11:31
Hi all,
I'm generally very happy with my home cinema set-up, except for one minor niggle; due to space constraints I need to use a "phantom centre" channel, which when enabled turns off the centre channel level control on my amplifier. But this makes the dialogue a little too low compared to the effect channels - this is particularly annoying at night; to hear the dialogue the effects have to be so loud that I fear annoying the neigbours! In fact, at night it would be useful to tilt the audio balance in the opposite direction, making centre louder than it normally would be. Since I cannot individually control the phantom centre sound level on my amp it would be great if there was a way to control the individual channel levels in VLC, before the audio gets passed through to S/PDIF out (yes, I do realise that this is counter to the "passthrough" concept!). I've spent some time searching the web but haven't been able to find anything, so I come here to see if anyone has any tips?
Edit: I'd be perfectly happy with system level (ALSA) channel mixing, if it's not possible to do this in VLC. In fact that might be preferable!
I'm generally very happy with my home cinema set-up, except for one minor niggle; due to space constraints I need to use a "phantom centre" channel, which when enabled turns off the centre channel level control on my amplifier. But this makes the dialogue a little too low compared to the effect channels - this is particularly annoying at night; to hear the dialogue the effects have to be so loud that I fear annoying the neigbours! In fact, at night it would be useful to tilt the audio balance in the opposite direction, making centre louder than it normally would be. Since I cannot individually control the phantom centre sound level on my amp it would be great if there was a way to control the individual channel levels in VLC, before the audio gets passed through to S/PDIF out (yes, I do realise that this is counter to the "passthrough" concept!). I've spent some time searching the web but haven't been able to find anything, so I come here to see if anyone has any tips?
Edit: I'd be perfectly happy with system level (ALSA) channel mixing, if it's not possible to do this in VLC. In fact that might be preferable!