[MPlayer-users] playing DVD

[janik]

thanks gabor
sorry I have not many information about multimedia stuff in linux
so my questions are maybe silly but I am trying to find some help to
understand what's going on

1. I know that my sblive5.1 has dolby digital decoder
2. so I want watch movie with ac3 sound with 6 channels and for decoding
I want to use sblive

I don't know what to use: oss/alsa drivers or external decoder.

j.


On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 16:33, gabor wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:53, janik wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to use mplayer to play DVD,
> > can somebody give me a help how to configure??
> > 
> > I am using Debian woody and last release of mplayer.
> > I have SoundBlaster 5.1 Digital
> > 
> > I can play divix movies and DVD too, but:
> > 
> > sound is only stereo. I am trying find help how to set up my linux to
> > use my SoundBlaster 5.1 digital with all stuff so mplayer should play
> > DVD and using dolby digital decoder of SoundBlaster.
> > 
> > maybe it's not question for this mailing list, but I think that users of
> > mplayer should know some tricks :-)
> 
> 1. it's questionable whether sblive5.1 has a hardware dolby digital
> decoder.
> 
> 2. what do you want?:
> 	a. do you want to watch a movie with ac3 sound with 4(6) analog
> speakers?
> 		-do you have oss? :
> 			"mplayer -channels 4 my.avi" 
> 		-do you have alsa? :
> 			"mplayer -channels 4 -ao alsa9:surround40 my.avi"
> 	
> 	b. do you want to watch a movie with ac3 sound using an external ac3
> decoder?
> 		-you have to work with 'mplayer -ac hwac3' and read the mailing list +
> read DOCS/tech/hwac3.txt on how to set it up.
> 
> 
> gabor
> 
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