[MPlayer-users] problem with ac3 playback

[Corey Hickey]

Dave Alden wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:03:49PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> 
>>Looks like you're using oss audio output (either from creative's drivers
>>or alsa oss emulation). Try loading the alsa drivers, if you haven't
>>already, and add '-ao alsa9' to your mplayer command.
>>
>>If that works, you can add ao=alsa9 to your mplayer config file.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I've already tried that.  :-(  I had the
> same issues (no video w/AC3 out, video fine with stereo out).  Any other
> ideas?
> 
> ...dave
> 

I'm running out of ideas here. What version are you using now? Have you
tried the latest CVS? If so, please post the full output of
mplayer -v -ao alsa9 -ac hwac3 somemovie.avi

-Corey