Make audio channels customizable (downmixing)

[sojusnik]

Modern movies have 5/6 audio channels, but I'm using simple left & right speakers (2.0 channels), therefore it would be very helpful to have an option to always play movies in predefined audio channels. This is called downmixing and is possible in VLC, as described f.i. here.

[carlosgonz0]

This is very nice feature to clapper.

[frandavid100]

Modern movies have 5/6 audio channels, but I'm using simple left & right speakers (2.0 channels)

Is this the reason why sound effects are always so loud and people's voices are always so quiet when playing movies with 5.1 audio on Totem?

[Rafostar]

Is this the reason why sound effects are always so loud and people's voices are always so quiet when playing movies with 5.1 audio on Totem?

With 5.1 sound, speech is often distributed more towards center front speaker, which does not exists if you play 5.1 on stereo system. Hence this request here to distribute audio from missing speakers into the present ones.

[frandavid100]

First off, this problem has baffled me for years, so thanks a lot for explaining.

Also, in that case, I second the request. I'd love to be able to watch videos with 5.1 audio, on my stereo system, and understand what people are saying.

[ghost]

Thirded, I'd love to use Clapper instead of VLC for watching movies but no downmixing makes it impossible to do that one thing. It should probably follow the configuration in Gnome Sound Output Configuration setting.