[MPlayer-users] sound issues

[Dave Henderson]

Gang,

    I am trying to rip the ac3 audio from a dvd.  I have read the secion of the mplayer README regarding this issue.  It says to best way to rip and preserve the ac3 audio is to use the syntax:

    mplayer source_file.VOB -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3

so I tried it:

    # mount /dvd
    # cd /dvd/VIDEO_TS
    /dvd/VIDEO_TS# mplayer VTS_01_0.VOB -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile /opt/rip/sound.ac3

and here is the output:

MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing VTS_01_0.VOB.
Seek failed


Exiting... (End of file)



I am doing this from a SSH connection, and if I go and look on the screen of the computer itself, I see a bunch of errors such as:

    Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 11104 (or it would be 11105)
    hdc: command error: status=0x51 { driveready seekcomplete error }
    hdc: command error: status=0x54
    end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 44416 (or it would be 44420)

I know the dvd and drive are good because I can watch the movie on the same computer by typing:

    mplayer dvd://

Anyone got any ideas as to what the problem can be?  I am using Debian 3.1 Sarge with the latest .deb mplayer package availale (1.0-pre8-0.1sa).

Thanks,
Dave