[MPlayer-users] DTS problem

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:35:16PM -0500, Matthew Player wrote:
> 
> I'm copying my DVDs to a hard drive for a home media PC. The audio gets
> sent via SPDIF to my AV Receiver which does the decoding. I prefer to
> use the DTS track when its available. This works fine for some discs,
> but not for all of them.
> 
> 
> 
> The ones that are broken, mplayer reports the audio format as 0x50 when
> it should be 0x2001. Even so, VLC under Windows has no problem playing
> audio even though the DTS track is the only one on there.
> 
> 
> 
> The weirdest thing is that whilst the ripping process is still going,
> mplayer plays the partial file correctly with DTS output. As soon as
> the rip is complete, mplayer can't find the audio.
> 
> 
> Prior to completion:
> $ mplayer -identify -vo null War.iso

This is not the correct way to play a ripped DVD. Instead, use:

mplayer -dvd-device War.iso dvd://1

Otherwise you're just relying on the mpeg demuxer to skip all the
filesystem crap and treat the whole DVD image as one big MPEG file,
which is extremely bogus.

Rich