Reverse stereo

[natirips]

Is there a way to reverse stereo (system-wide) using OSS4 (preferably connector-wise)?

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My left and right headphones are reversed (yes, I put the one marked "L" on my left ear and the one marked "R" on my right ear). My speakers (connected at the back of the computer) are playing just fine, but my headphones (connected to the front panel) are playing reversed stereo. It is most likely my motherboard's fault because I used the same headset and the same speakers before on my old computer also using OSS4 and everything was fine.
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I'm using OSS4 v4.2 under Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze) on amd64.

[cesium]

Yes, you can using vmix.

Get and build the version from mercurial repo (see instructions here), and use "vmixctl remap" command. IIRC, "sudo vmixctl remap /dev/dsp 2 1" should do it for everything that uses vmix.

[natirips]

Edit:
I compiled the one from mercurial repository, and everything considering this post is done using that version.
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I am now using some of the back-panel jacks and everything is fine. The front-panel jacks are still stereo-reversed, and the command had no effect whatsoever.

So neither of the following has any effect whatsoever (all ran as root, tested using "osstest"):

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vmixctl remap /dev/dsp 0 0 0 0 6 5

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vmixctl remap /dev/dsp 0 0 0 0 5 6

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vmixctl remap /dev/dsp 1 2

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vmixctl remap /dev/dsp 2 1

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Oh, and by the way, the wiki forgets to mention "libtool" under dependencies. It's needed for "make build" part, I had to install it to build. (hypothetically libtool may only be needed for configure --enable-midi=YES)

[cesium]

osstest by default bypasses vmix, so you won't get any difference (including if you mute vmix or any other setting change). Try testing with "osstest -V" and I think you'll find out "sudo vmixctl remap /dev/dsp 2 1" line works. [99.99% of software don't try to bypass vmix (only other exception I recall is JACK), and you can add a parameter to osscore.conf to disable said bypass, so I don't expect this to become a problem].

As for libtool, yea, I'll add it to the wiki (I think it's only used for libsalsa. libsalsa is only built under Linux when some ALSA headers are found, and building it can be disabled with --enable-libsalsa=NO switch to configure).

[natirips]

Ah, now it works. Thanks.

[ojin11]

I too had been recently wondering whether there was an easy way out there by which I could reverse the stereo headphones. Anyway, it is good to learn that we can indeed use Vmix. However, is there any recent version of Vmix available for download which includes this feature?

[natirips]

@adibitar69: Your problem may be unrelated to mine. See if you're using the correct type of jack (see a poor quality attached image, sorry for the quality, I don't have a proper camera at hand).

Be sure the colors are matched because mobile phone/tablet/... headphones (usually black or white) have 4 connections (left, right, mic, ground) while traditional computer headphones (usually green) have 3 connectors (left, right, ground). Count the shiny sections divided by black lines.

Sometimes you may be lucky to get mobile phone headphones to work on a desktop by not plugging them all the way in but a millimeter or two short.



Also, this thread was dead for five years. As I just discovered, OSS' forums even changed their web address in the mean time.

[WilliamGrant]

Thank You for this information its perfectly working fine.