[MPlayer-users] Re: How can I hear dts?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 05 February 2007 at 23:00, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:08:13AM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:48:18PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > On Monday, 05 February 2007 at 08:30, Robert Henney wrote:
> [...]
> > > > I have been able to get libdts to work, but all the 6/7 channel dts
> > > > tracks I have tried are treated as stereo.  mplayer does see the
> > > > track for what it is (eg. "audio stream: 1 format: dts (5.1)") but even
> > > > with "-channels 6" the ffdts codec prints "AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch,
> > > > s16le, 768.0 kbit/50.00%" and only stereo is heard.
> > > 
> > > Yes, it's a limitation of libdts. We can't do anything about it until
> > > somebody adds support for that to libdts or writes a more capable DTS
> > > decoder for ffmpeg.
> > 
> > Are you sure the problem is with libdts and not mplayer?
> > Why then xine can play six channels dts without problem?
> > For what I remember mplayer's limitation is due to the fact that apparently nobody 
> > cares to add full six channels support for dts audio in mplayer itself.
> 
> The problem actually was in ffmpeg, it was known (at least to me), and
> was just fixed in latest SVN.

Great. Sorry for spreading confusion.

Regards,
R.

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