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Bug#913344: marked as done (The "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting not working in VLC 3.X when the "Force detection of Dolby Surround" setting is enabled)

Your message dated Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:56:22 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#913344: The "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting not working in VLC 3.X when the "Force detection of Dolby Surround" setting is enabled
has caused the Debian Bug report #913344,
regarding The "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting not working in VLC 3.X when the "Force detection of Dolby Surround" setting is enabled
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Package: vlc
Version: 3.0.3-1
Since Debian stable switched to VLC 3.X I started to notice the problem with "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting. I was able to reproduce the problem consistently with VLC 3.0.3 from Debian stable repository. I did not test this in Debian unstable as I have no sound enabled in my test VM (but my guess is that the problem should be also reproducible in unstable).
Enabling the "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting causes audio tracks (including in songs not just in videos) to become garbled and especially speech is not understandable. After disabling the setting the audio tracks play normally. In previous versions (before VLC 3.X) the "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting enabled a usable surround sound experience even for stereo audio tracks with normal stereo headphones, so it is missed greatly.
Noticed with various files and various audio/video codecs (all files which I tested up to now, so sample should be easy to obtain).
The "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" setting can be found in VLC advanced/all settings in "Audio > Filters". The specific settings in the "~/.config/vlc/vlcrc" file are: 

audio-filter=headphone
force-dolby-surround=1
headphone-compensate=1
headphone-dim=3
and after further testing i noticed that the combination of the "audio-filter=headphone" with "force-dolby-surround=1" is what causes the problem.
I had both settings enabled because the following extract from the "Force detection of Dolby Surround" option tooltip seemed to be true: "... Even if the stream is not actually encoded with Dolby Surround, turning on this option might enhance your experience, especially when combined with the Headphone Channel Mixer." (assuming "Headphone virtual spatialization effect" is "Headphone Channel Mixer" as I found no other similar VLC setting that contains string "Headphone"). 

Regards,
Bakhelit

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Version: 3.0.6-1

On 2019-04-29 10:47:09, bakhelit@gmail.com wrote:
> Seems, no longer present in VLC 3.0.6+ in Unstable - see my comments in
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21439 for details.

Great, closing.

Cheers
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Sebastian Ramacher

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