[MPlayer-users] TrueHD

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:27:04AM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 24/01/2010 alle 22.23 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos ha scritto:
> > Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/evob/truehdfail.evo
> > 
> > This was the only sample mentioned on roundup, move documented.
> > 
> > > (still not working at all I think, though I did not try ausid or something)
> > 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/60788/focus=61153
> > 
> > Nico's answer contains some hints on how to solve this,
> > 
> > Carl Eugen
> > 
> 
> 
> it seems that duty calls and that I have to find some time for this
> misdetection ;)

Note that by my investigation it seems that TrueHD uses some kind of different
"wrapping" I haven't figured out - where PCM has 3 bytes specifying channel
count etc. TrueHD has 4 bytes of I-don't-know-what (possibly some length?).
Just always skipping 4 bytes does not work.