5.1toStereo asoundrc Profile

In linux, audio channels can be remixed via the file .asoundrc found in the user's home directory.

To check your routing, run the program speaker-test. For 6 channels, run

speaker-test -c 6 -t wav

it is important to pay attention to which speakers map to which outputs. For example, on my system, the output is

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 32 to 8192
Period size range from 16 to 4096
Using max buffer size 8192
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 2048
was set buffer_size = 8192
 0 - Front Left
 4 - Center
 1 - Front Right
 3 - Rear Right
 2 - Rear Left
 5 - LFE

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In this case, by default I would only be able to hear stereo output from the front right and left speakers, outputs 0 and 1 accordingly.  What would we like to do would be to map the rear-channels to the right and left sides accordingly and split the center and lfe channels between the two speakers accordingly.  This can be done via the asoundrc, in this case as follows


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#5.1 to stereo downmix
pcm.!default {
slave.pcm surround51
slave.pcm surround51
	slave.channels 6
	type route
	ttable.0.0 1
	ttable.1.1 1
	ttable.2.0 1
	ttable.3.1 1
	ttable.4.0 0.5
	ttable.4.1 0.5
	ttable.5.0 0.5
	ttable.5.1 0.5
}