[MPlayer-users] DTS problem

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:44:39PM -0500, Matthew Player wrote:
> 
> > This is not the correct way to play a ripped DVD. Instead, use:
> > 
> > mplayer -dvd-device War.iso dvd://1
> 
> That explains a few things. Thanks. It's working now. The fact that
> some worked and some didn't threw me.
> 
> I'm slightly confused by the following message, but the receiver
> reports it as DTS 5.1
> 
> hwac3: switched to DTS, 768000 bps, 48000 Hz
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 768.0 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 96000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm: hwac3 (DTS through S/PDIF)
> ==========================================================================
> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3 (1 bytes per sample)
> 
> I guess it is playing DTS through the SPDIF and 2ch demux through normal speaker outputs?

With the hwac3/hwdts decoder, I suspect the channels info is
meaningless and just showing a dummy value.

Rich