[SDL] Audio Channels - Surround?

[Marian Schedenig]

Hi!

I'm currently trying to decide between SDL and OpenAL as my audio library. 
OpenAL offers surround sound (which I may want to use later on), but I'm not 
too happy with their Linux support, particularly since, to my knowledge, the 
latest stable version is still unable to play stereo music.

Regarding SDL, I'm trying to figure out if it already supports surround audio. 
The SDL_ OpenAudio documentation in the Wiki states that 4 and 6 channels may 
be requested for surround audio. I remember patches implementing this for the 
ALSA backend a few years ago, but what about other backends. For example, is 
this yet supported on the Windows platform? And could I rely on SDL correctly 
falling back on stereo output if no additional channels are available for a 
specific system? What about SDL_mixer, does it support multichannel output 
(if SDL itself does)?

Thx,
Marian.

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