Hi, I would like to use the Qt5.x QtMultiMedia to output sound independently on multi-channel devices such as 5.1 and 7.1 sound cards. However I can't figure out to tell how many channels a device has.
>From the documentation I guess that QAudioDeviceInfo::supportedChannelCounts is the call that I need but that isn't giving the answers that I expect. PyQt5 test program (built with Qt 5.5.1 on OSX 10.10.5): from PyQt5.QtMultimedia import QAudioDeviceInfo, QAudio, QAudioFormat for d in QAudioDeviceInfo.availableDevices(QAudio.AudioOutput): print d.deviceName(), d.supportedChannelCounts() f = QAudioFormat(d.preferredFormat()) f.setChannelCount(6) print d.isFormatSupported(f) Using OSX 10.10.5 on a MacBook Pro I have a 5.1 USB audio card plugged in and the output from the above program is: Built-in Output [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16] True USB Audio [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16] True I was expecting some information that would tell me that the built in output has 2 channels and that 6 isn't supported and the USB audio has 6 channels. I get I similar result on Windows 7. What is the right way to query the number of channels on a device? Glenn _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest