[MPlayer-users] missing sound channels

[Tony Alfrey]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> info at danielerossi.net wrote:
>>
>>
>> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> Installed mplayer on a SuSE 9.1 box with a Gigabyte MB with on-board
>>> Realtek ALC650 chipset, and nvidia graphics card.  The video works 
>>> fine, but it seems that the dialog portion of the sound track is 
>>> missing. Music tracks play fine.  All the mixer channels in KDE 
>>> (KAMix) are turned on.  I've read some of the documentation but do 
>>> not see exactly how to make all of the audio tracks that there must 
>>> be on the DVD actually play.  Does anyone have any suggestions of 
>>> where I might look in the MPlayer documentation?
>>> Thanks!
> 
>> maybe I miss something, but it's hard to me to understand:
>> are you playing a DVD from dvd device
> 
> I use /dev/dvd
> 
>> and the dvd-vobs have ac3 multichannel audiostream?



Here is some of the information that appears when I play the dvd:

Playing dvd://1.
There are 2 titles on this DVD.
There are 23 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: fr aid: 129.
audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (stereo) language: unknown aid: 130.
number of audio channels on disk: 3.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: fr
number of subtitles on disk: 2
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s)

==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)

==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...

......................................................................


Toward the top it refers to "audio streams" and "audio channels".
I only hear the stereo music portions.  I hear no dialog, or the other 
background noises that typically exist in a film.

Thanks in advance!


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