http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29737
Bug #: 29737 Summary: Bad sound output from Windows Media Player 10 Product: Wine Version: 1.3.37 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: andrej@podzimek.org Classification: Unclassified
When playing a standard DRM-protected movie in DVD quality with 5.1 audio in Wine, downmixing to stereo (on a laptop where both ALSA and PulseAudio know that no extra outputs are available) does not work properly.
What I hear (just a wild guess): Left channel: Subwoofer Right channel: Right Middle or Right Rear speaker
Sound works just fine for movies that only have a standard stereo soundtrack. I tried to click through the whole WMP 10 settings and also through some codec settings, but did not find anything helpful there.
Also tried three different audio settings in Wine: Standard ALSA: Works and plays through PulseAudio (as well as without it), but has the issue reported above. ESD: Thought it might cooperate with PulseAudio directly, but WMP crashes on an unhandled page fault in this case. OSS: WMP gets stuck when opening the file, no sound produced, no matter if run with padsp or not.