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[Sam_Zen]

The distinction is not about the actual result, it's about adding a plugin, which also means installing the proper codecs,
or adding a plugin, and having to search for the proper codecs to make things complete.
Talking about codecs : Maybe I should have mentioned, that I tested this. with the K-Lite codec package installed.

[Sam_Zen]

Updated the page.
Removed the SWF format, because it's not really a video.

Added a collection of the used formats in a zipped file.
Still a beta-version, because I want to trim some files in size and duration.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~samzen/media/divmedia.7z

Somebody at the VideoLan forum came up with the issue of multichannel audio-files.
This is an important issue to me too, because I make my sound-productions in 4 channels.
I still have to add results of such a test to the page, but I made a zip with some material already :
http://www.xs4all.nl/~samzen/media/divmedia4.7z

EDIT: MOD playback
During this test I noticed that XMPlay plays a MOD file only in mono output mode.
So far, I couldn't find any setting to change this.

[raina]

EDIT: MOD playback
During this test I noticed that XMPlay plays a MOD file only in mono output mode.
So far, I couldn't find any setting to change this.

You may want to use either Normal or PT1 for MOD playback mode and increase the pan separation.

[Sam_Zen]

Thanks a lot. My ignorance.
The MOD setting was still on FT2, while a MOD is a ProTracker format with a basic L-R-R-L division of channels.
No need for more pan separation, this is sufficient.

[Sam_Zen]

Added the test with four channel audio files.
Although XMPlay wasn't able to produce four seperated tracks, it was the only player that came up with a proper stereo mix of it.

[Dotpitch]

Although XMPlay wasn't able to produce four seperated tracks, it was the only player that came up with a proper stereo mix of it.

You might want to try the DirectSound output plugin to get multichannel audio.

[Jace]

Besides, shouldn't XMP play all channels in the track by default? Stereo files output from two speakers, 5.1 for six etc? Presuming the 'downmix to stereo' isn't checked.

[Sam_Zen]

Thanks, Dotpitch, this one is according to my principle of 'only native' plugins, as stated on the page.
I will check it out.

shouldn't XMP play all channels in the track by default?

Sure. I just made the distinction because some other players made a wrong stereo-mix of the quad, with a very weak channels 3 and 4.
Depending on all kind of circumstances there are 3 possibilities for a quad file :
~ Play it correctly with four different channels
~ Make a stereo mix of the four channels
~ Silence