alsasink seems to be limited to 8 channels
Hi, I often playback video files with soundtracks that have 9 to 10 channels such as upper-front-left, lower-front-left, upper-front-right, lower-front-right, upper-rear-left, lower-rear-left, upper-rear-right, lower-rear-right, dialog, LFE. I had as many as 16 channels in the past based on the application. I have used pulsesink, but I recently switch to alsa-sink and liked it a lot as ALSA gives me more flexibility under Linux as I can use alsa multi plugins to combine a couple of audio devices into one... Anyways, I have encountered that alsa-sink is limited to 8 channels and crashs if I attempt to play 9 or more channels. Forgetting my specific applications, with things like ATMOS becoming more and more popular, it seems that expanding alsa-sink to at least 16 channels or preferably more, would be a welcome thing. Thank you,