[MPlayer-users] Create an AVI with DD5.1 out of a DVD ?

Corey Hickey bugfood-ml at fatooh.org
Fri Nov 14 09:44:56 CET 2003


Tilo Renkl wrote:
>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>>DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:50:16PM +0100, Tilo Renkl wrote:
>>
>>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>>
>>DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>
>>>As far as I can see, mencoder detects the right audiostram (DD 5.1),
>>>but tries to reencode somehow to 2.0 ?!?!
>>>
>>>But see for yourself. This is my console output:
>>
>>IMO it's no big problem, just a bug in mencoder's header writing. The
>>5.1 audio is still there, and should be played just fine...
>>
> 
> I do not know what exactly is there, but I can say that it is no
> correct 5.1 sound. My receiver is going mad when I replay
> that file. Always switching between a few differend soundtypes.
> 
> Tilo
> 

If you want the 5.1 AC3 sound to go straight to your receiver, you
should use -ac hwac3 (and you might or might not need -ao alsa9,
depending on whether you use alsa).

If that doesn't do the trick, please post the output of:

mplayer -v -ac hwac3 yourmovie.avi

-Corey



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