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Subject: playing surround on mac
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:12 am ((PDT))
> As for hybrid stereo/surround playback, iTunes will play QuickTime
> Normal & Reference movies in stereo and surround.  Once on a server,
> stereo and surround files will also play in a browser on Mac (and
> supposedly Windows with QT installed and configured). Here's a link
> to 4 channel surround file I recorded last night. You can see if it
> plays in your browser the way your audio card is currently configured:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/npck3g (43 mb QuickTime)
> (If not, here's the OS/card adjustment for mac OS X:  Audio/Midi
> set-up (an app in the Utilities folder) ->  Default Output (Select
> your 4+ channel card); Properties For (Select your 4+ channel card);
> Configure Speakers -> Multi-channel -> Left Front =3D 1; Right Front =3D
> 2; Left Surround =3D3 and Right Surround =3D 4; Center 5 and LFE=3D6. Cli=
ck
> "Apply."  Sorry, I'm not sure how to do this configuration on PC with
> QuickTime installed and a multi-channel card connected to four or
> more speakers-- but it should be doable. Might try Firefox too?)

My multichannel sound interface is Digi 002 Rack, and I could not get
Audio/Midi Setup to set up multiple channel output when that was
selected. Or to work at all, for that matter. The little Digi/
quicktime whatever it is driver window never came up and the 002
interface never appeared to be connected.

When the system output is set to Line Output your file plays in Safari
in stereo.

-Dan Dugan






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