[MPlayer-users] Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Bug Report: Different audio sid in the output log by "mplayer dvd://4 -v" command

[Giacomo Comes]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:25:49PM +0800, Bo Xie wrote:
> > Rather strange... I had a similar problem the other week, so I just
> > forced the track ID with -aid, and moved on. I did not test if that
> > was a regression from previous MPlayer's versions, and suspected it
> > was only due to a broken authoring/mastering of the DVD.
> > 
> > Could you maybe upload somewhere a 1-2 Mb sample of your source?
> > Please follow that document:
> > http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_playback
> > 
> The source DVD is an encrypted DVD (name is "Wind Talkers"). Can I
> still use "dd if=yourfile of=smallfile bs=1024k count=5" to cut a
> small source file for uploading?
> 

You can dump a small part of a DVD in this way:

mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 1-1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.vob

Playing with:
mplayer -v dvd.vob

will show: 
==> Found audio stream: n

but you wont see:
[open] audio stream: 0 audio format: .......

because you need the dvd structure for that.

Giacomo