[Gamester17]

No, we are still in a feature freeze http://trac.xbmc.org/roadmap

[GooglieS]

You mean that we need to wait that feature for about a year?

[Freddo]

Nah the feature freeze will end when Atlantis is released, sometime this month (if everything goes according to the schedule)

[sylvio2000]

But the problem is that the roadmap for the next version of xbmc does not show anything regarding 5.1 analogue output

[Freddo]

I think the feature request for 5.1 analog out is tagged for 9.04 though if you look it up.

[sylvio2000]

That could be possible, but I cant find anything on the roadmap

I hope this will be integrated some day

[Gamester17]

http://trac.xbmc.org/query?group=status&milestone=9.04

[sylvio2000]

Thank you very much. This is more detailed.

Now I am happy and looking forward to april 2009

[m0gwai]

Any news on this, Is it going to fixed soon, I have a high end sound card (LynxTWO-B) doing a very nice job at 5.1 analog would be a shame not to use it.

[jozwikjp]

you need to comment out stuff in a few places actually. dts/ac3/aac decoder and alsa audio rendererer.

Is there instructions for this anywhere?

[Gamester17]

Not supported yet by XBMC code, see these related suggestions for more information:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=39663
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34130
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=36982
feature requests:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4450
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4871
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5188

[ashlar]

One thing I found working, for Windows, is if you have an X-Fi soundcard and use the internal Dolby and DTS decoders.
You can set XBMC to output digitally, that gets intercepted by the X-Fi that decodes the stream and outputs it correctly on the 6 analogue outs.

[GooglieS]

Can we make the same thing in Linux? Any one knows?

[Dannydeman]

Is this already working in the latest SVN('ns)?
The last thing I heard is that you can enable it in some XML file, but the output would be mixed up (so you hear the left from behind etc).

[Freddo]

Yeah the channel mapping is still off on windows, except oddly for 6channel FLAC output which is perfect? but I think that's actually a bug (please no-one fix it lol) because 6channel FLAC also isn't correctly downmixed to stereo.