[MPlayer-users] Mpeg audio stream order

[Nico Sabbi]

n0dalus wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am converting a series of files to mpeg2 using mencoder, then
>mplex'ing them with two audio streams to produce an mpeg2 file.
>I am having a problem that for some reason with one of my encodes (I
>have done around 10 so far), mplayer reads the two audio streams
>around the wrong way and chooses the second stream by default instead
>of the first. Other players like totem,xine,etc don't seem to have any
>problems and get the streams in the right order.
>With mplayer -v 1.mpg, I get:
>...
>system stream synced at 0xD (0)!
>==> Found video stream: 0
>==> Found audio stream: 128
>==> Found audio stream: 129
>MPEG Stream reached EOF
>...
>And I hear the 1st audio stream (128)
>
>With mplayer -v 2.mpg, I get:
>...
>system stream synced at 0xD (0)!
>==> Found video stream: 0
>==> Found audio stream: 129
>==> Found audio stream: 128
>...
>And I hear the 2nd audio stream (129)
>
>I don't understand why mplayer is doing this, but I am concerned that
>it might cause problems in dvd players if the streams are defined in
>the wrong order. 
>

there is no order: there are only stream ids, so don't mind :)

>None of the other files used with mplex so far have
>had this problem. If I stop the mplex of this file half-way through,
>mplayer will get it in the right order, but if I let the mplex finish
>(or presumably reach a certain point), mplayer reads the audio streams
>in the wrong order.
>
>Is this problem anything to be worried about? 
>
no

>Is there any way of
>working out if this problem is in mplayer or if my file is broken?
>
>Thanks for your time/help.
>n0dalus.
>
>  
>

it's an mplayer's "feature"