using visualizations disables surround sound

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

Binary package hint: totem

I have working 6 channels (5.1) sound with pulseaudio (ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10) and Totem gstreamer. All is good, but I found a new and interesting bug today. If I enable the audio visualizations in totem, sound will be downixed to stereo instead of playing back in surround. I can reproduce this consistently.

This might be a reason why some people report surround not working for them with audio files.

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

Confirmed on Jaunty up to date.

This bug is not a duplicate of bug #40732 because it's only related to visualizations : 5.1 surround works fine without it or with a video.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

works fine here with a 5.1 system, pulseaudio and karmic, could you please try the same in karmic? thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Finally upgraded to Karmic, confirming as fixed.