Using surround sound outputs separately?

[Ian Malone]

2010/1/18 Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com>:
> On 01/18/2010 02:15 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> I've had a couple of Googles at this, but it's hard to pick the right
>> keywords and I've not hit anything.
>>
>> Has anyone got a surround sound card (5.1 or 7.1) to separately output
>> stereo on two pairs of channels or able to suggest how?  What I've got
>> is a 7.1 card with 4 stereo out jacks, which mostly has my monitor
>> speakers plugged into the main output, and a separate stereo speaker
>> set with amplifier (which is usually turned off).  I'd like to be able
>> to have the amplifier plugged into one of the other channels and be
>> able to swap the output between the two from the desktop.  Is setting
>> the system up as 4.0 and using forward/backward fade the best way to
>> accomplish this, or are things which can output in surround (like
>> DVDs) going to be confused by the arrangement?
>>


> as per my understanding you want stereo out put from 7.1 sound card and
> ...wanna swap it to either ampli-speaker and non-ampli speaker ...is it ??
>

Yes that's it.  The fade idea came to me while I was writing the email
and spotted the 4.0 mode on the pulseaudio control, but, as I say, I'm
wondering whether things that output surround wont work properly if I
try that.  Using F11 at the moment and upgrading to 12 in the near
future.

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imalone