[MPlayer-users] [BUG] Wrong audio channel mapping when playing WMV3/WMVHD files

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 29 October 2006 at 17:27, Frank Aurich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When playing some (most) of the WMV-HD files provided at 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx,
> Mplayer doesn't get the channel order of the 6ch audio right.
> The voice track is mapped to rear left (I wasn't able to figure out the 
> mapping of the other channels).
> 
> I tested these samples:
> 
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/c/61ca6316-a44f-46ef-9e8c-074c3dd813c0/To_The_Limit_720.exe
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/9/d/09d051c4-decc-4d39-9c57-f520187213a1/Amazing_Caves_720.exe
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/9/20907788-993F-4EF6-8D75-F0DD93207FB8/AdrenalineRush_720.exe
> This file was particularily interesting: When playing in Mplayer, I heard a 
> french voice from rear left.
> When using Media Player Classic, an English person spoke from the center. 
> AFAICT, the video has only one audio track.

Yes, this is a known problem, but AFAIK the maintainer of the code doesn't
have a 5.1 speaker setup. It would help if you could find the correct
mapping, for example using -af channels.

Regards,
R.

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