[MPlayer-users] Problem playing DTS Audio CD

[Barak Zalstein]

>
> Since a DTS cd resembles an ordinary audio CD, I'd first try:
> mplayer cdda://1


I havn't used mplayer to play audio CDs in a while, and just discovered that
I cannot play them at all (playing the same audio CD works fine in
sound-juicer and xmms).

I've tried the command line
mplayer cdda://1
which yields:
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino (Family: 6,
Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup scripts.
Playing cdda://1.
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
[file] No filename
Failed to open cdda://1


Exiting... (End of file)

I've also tried

sudo mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdd cdda://1

(/dev/hdd is symlinked to /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd)

with similar results.

On the DTS side, playing that disk with xmms/sound-juicer yields white noise
(expected).
Since I couldn't play it with mplayer, I've tried ripping the disk using k3b
and create image only, which generated a directory containing wav files (I
didn't see an option to  rip the disk into ISO image instead).

Playing back one of the wav files, mplayer reports the file as stereo, I
hear the music but the sound skips every second or so - like pause/continue,
so I also suspect that the ripping was not good. Mplayer cpu usage is no
more than 15%. The output appears as correctly identify the files as DTS,
and xmms plays the same wav file as white noise:

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AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffdts] afm:ffmpeg (DTS)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/6ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 6ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/6ch/s16le...
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  20.7 (20.7) 16.3%

(^C)
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio



Barak