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Hello,

I'm having problems with the audio of the VLC 0.7.1:

The Digi 001 only sounds in the left speaker.
I've noticed that VLC only lets me select one of the 16 outputs of the Digi 001 in mono. The Mac internal audio of my G4 is available in stereo.

What I have to do?

Thank you!

The program works great, but that strange mono problem is really weird: Quicktime works great with my Digi 001 and souns in stereo in the two speakers...

Help me please!

Thank you!!!!

VLC has numerous problems with strange sound units on osx. This is a known, and major problem, and no one in the team has time or expertice to fix this.

I have the same problem with my hammerhead 96/56

And im using vlc0.7.2 on a powermac g4 Panther

Try this VERY experimental version and let us know if it works
http://xserve.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/maco ... 200326.dmg

It still doesn't work with the experimental v0.7.3 you provided.
You can only output to mono-channels of the digi001 one at a time, every mono-channel is listed as a seperate audio device (device 1 is digi001 chn 1 mono, 2 is chn 2, etc.)

It's too bad it's not possible to route individual left, right (center, rear l/r) outputs from vlc to whatever audio'device' you want...or is there?

Honestly. the digi is just a stupid device
We shouldn't have to do that for the device the device should provide the interface that does it for us.

I have heard though that someone is working on this, so let's hope he can figure out what needs to be done to support this. No garantuees.

Strange? Stupid? Are these synonymous with "professional multichannel"?

YES. You have to see that VLC tries to do a multichannel output where possible. However this was a completely uncovered terrain in the OSX documentation when we first did this ( Mac OS X 10.0 ). It was originally implemented for us by M-Audio.

Since then much has changed. The complexity has increased a lot and there have been many API changes. M-audio has not made any more contributions, and the VLC team itself lacks the required hardware and expertise to implement this.

I have the same problem (mono audio output on left channel only) but with a Metric Halo ULN-2. It's a FireWire professional audio card with six outputs and VLC 0.7.2 sees six mono output. The OS sound out sees output 1 & 2 as the principal output and audio comes rightly out as stereo with other apps (iTunes, DVD player, etc).

I will signal the problem to Metric Halo driver programmer to see what's his take on the problem.

The problem here that this is not a device you can just tell "Output these 5 channels. (at least not with our current implementation)"

Any contributions to this area of VLC are GREATLY appreciated and even more WANTED.

Hey! My original message was deleted! I didn't write the preceding one: the quotes come from my deleted message!

- Kewl