[MPlayer-users] DVD sound problems on 1.0pre6

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 02 January 2004 at 17:35, b r u ma wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Sunday, 02 January 2004 at 12:17, b r u ma wrote:
> >
> >>hi,
> >>
> >>I recently updated mplayer to version 1.0pre6. I notice that with this 
> >>new version some of my DVDs (which were playing ok with 1.0pre5) have 
> >>sound problems.
> >>
> >>Here are outputs for same DVD
> >>for version 1.0pre5:
> >>==========================================================================
> >>Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
> >
> >[...]
> > 
> >
> >>and for version 1.0pre6:
> >>==========================================================================
> >>Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> >>Cannot find codec 'dts' in libavcodec...
> >>ADecoder init failed :(
> >>ADecoder init failed :(
> >>Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through SP/DIF
> >>No accelerated IMDCT transform found
> >>hwac3: switched to DTS, 768000 bps, 48000 Hz
> >>AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x400), ratio: 96000->192000 (768.0 kbit)
> >>Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm:hwac3 (DTS through SPDIF)
> >
> >
> >First, never trim MPlayer's output. All of it contains valuable
> >information. Second, it seems that the new version auto-selects another
> >audio track (DTS) instead of AC3, so using -aid should help here.
> >Remember that pre5 didn't have DTS support at all. It's strange that
> >DTS is not decoded. AFAIR there was DTS support in latest libavcodec.
> >
> >R.
> >
> 
> Thanks for tip Dominik, as you suggested -aid=ID works Ok.
> 
> I also notice that I didn't have support for libdts in my mplayer.

Yes, I forgot you need an additional lib to have that and since official
RPMs carry only the minimum necessary feature set, DTS wasn't compiled in.
I'll add it as a build-time option.

R.

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