[MPlayer-users] DTS/AC3 issues

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:51:37PM -0600, Jeff Cook wrote:
> I've uploaded a sample to incoming, small-sample-file-bobac3.mkv. This file
> and others like it hang at the first frame. They won't move at all ...
> unless one turns off sound (-nosound or -ao null) or specifies the ac3 track
> with -aid 1.

> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/2.78% (ratio: 16000->576000)
> Selected audio codec: [ffdts] afm: ffmpeg (DTS)
> ==========================================================================
> AO: [oss] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Here is your problem. A lot of sound card drivers mess completely up
with 6-channel audio and oss. Either try -ao alsa, explicitly use -af
channels=2 or -ac ffdca (seems to support only two channel currently??)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger