[MPlayer-users] Audio Problem with dvd

[Ergzay]

On 2005/10/02, at 23:30, Vlad wrote:
> I just bought hitchhikers guide to the galaxy  on DVD and when I play
> it with Mplayer it says something like cannot find audio codec and all
> it does is makes Buzzing noises but if i skip to chapter 6 or so it
> starts playing the sound fine if i rewind it from there the audio will
> play fine all the way through. My computer however cant play DVDs
> smoothly unless i rip them to the hard drive but if i rip it to the
> hard drive i cant ship to chapter 6 and rewind to the beginning so it
> just buzzes all the way through. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Firstly, are you using the CVS? If you aren't then get it right now as 
it most likely will be fixed with the current CVS version.
My guess on this (not sure) is that your card may be picking up the raw 
dobly digitial audio on the disk (or DTS) and because your card/mplayer 
cannot decode it, it plays static. By jumping forward you somehow get 
mplayer or the dvd to switch to using standard stereo and then 
everything becomes fine.
An expensive solution would be to get a new computer to play DVDs on. 
If your computer is slow enough that it can't play DVDs smoothly you 
might want to replace it as even old computers (my 400mhz G3 iMac 6yrs) 
can play dvds smoothly.
Another solution would be to set up a script of some sort to jump to 
that location then rewind then start ripping.

Ergzay