On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:17:43 -0500 stattik <stattik at gmail.com> wrote: > It there a way to force mplayer/mencoder to decode the ac3 with the > video? -ac +a52 But it doesn't help in this case. If you use -dumpaudio, mplayer can't play the raw ac3 file, but a52dec can. So it appears to be a bug in mplayer's a52 decoder.