[MPlayer-users] dvd iso audio not decoding properly

[Robert Henney]

yeah replying to myself

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:34:10PM -0400, Robert Henney wrote:
> the machine which needs the "format=s16le" is some cheap 
> onboard chip and the one that works without it is a sblive.

after reading the man page section for "-af format=" and how
it should get enabled automatically when needed by the sound
hardware, my wild guess would be that the onboard chip needs s16le
and that its driver isn't communicating that fact to mplayer.
the sblive on the other hand may accept s16be fine or its driver is 
properly telling mplayer what it needs so that the filter gets added 
automatically (a verbose output from mplayer would probably tell
me the answer to that).