[MPlayer-users] dts audio CD playback (-ac dtscd) with a52 CRC errors

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 29 March 2006 at 17:48, Lars Steinke wrote:
> > > when trying to get mplayer to play back a dts audio CD via spdif
> > > passthrough,  I fail miserably with "mplayer -ac dtscd cdda://1" or
> > > "mplayer -ao alsa:device=spdif -ac dtscd cdda://1":
> > 
> > There's no such -ac in current CVS code. It must've been patched
> > by the packager.
> 
> Fair enough - I found mention of that -ac dtscd on this mailing list,
> so that must be code that obviously didn't make it into cvs...
> Irrespectively, there then is the issue why "mplayer -rawaudio
> on:format=0x2001 cdda://1" doesn't properly switch to dts?

I don't know. Show full -v output of that command, please.
I vaguely remember someone giving a recipe for playing DTS from
CD audio, but I don't remember any keywords.

> > > MPlayer dev-CVS--4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> > 
> > Unknown MPlayer version. Unsupported.
> 
> Sorry for that, it's Ubuntu's 1:1.0-pre7cvs20050716-0.1ubuntu9.1 by
> Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org>. Don't know why they messed
> with the version info.

Are you sure this is Christian's package? His latest Debian packages
seem to be fine.

> Guess the next response will be to build the latest cvs... <sigh>

;)

Regards,
R.

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