[MPlayer-users] DTS problem

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 04:06:42 Rich Felker wrote:
> 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

true, and also the exact command line used should be described
or we can't guess what the user did wrong