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<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial
size=2>HI,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've looked through
some of the archives on this section but couldn't find an answer to my question,
so I hope some one can shed some light on the support of AC3 files.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial size=2>First of all I
noticed on this list that the support of AC3 pass through on the DVB card seems
to be a bit unclear. For what it's worth, my experience has been that with
Mplayer0.90 pre6, I have no issue playing .vob files using the -ac hwac3 option,
regardless of the three DVB drivers I have used (april, june or
november). However, with Mplayer 0.90pre9 and pre10 this is no longer possible,
Mplayer crashes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now for
my questions, I have a couple of DVDs that I ripped to my harddrive and I
can playback using AC3 pass through on my DVB card, which works fine as I
mentioned with pre6. What I would like to do however with some music DVDs
is rip only the AC3 audio stream in order to save harddisk space. But when I try
to play the file with only the AC3 stream MPlayer indicates there's no
video stream and exits. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there an option
to play .vob files without a videostream? (I couldn't find it in the man
pages)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are also some
audio files I downloaded in .ac3 format. Could this be played be MPlayer as well
over a DVB card?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Patrick</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=406304308-09122002><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:patrickborger@hotmail.com">patrickborger@hotmail.com</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>