[MPlayer-users] Bug: Poor quality decoding of ac3 audio

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:56:42PM -0500, Rashkae wrote:
> I'm uploading some samples to the upload.mplayerhq.hu as
> ac3_decode_noise.tar.bz
> 
> I'm sorry for the very large file size. I did not want to cut the
> audio samples to avoid introducing  audio errors that way (since the
> error I'm reporting does sound a little like a 'cut' to my untrained
> ear)
> 
> Audio 'click' noise when mplayer decodes dvd audio.

I would guess that the audio is maybe badly mixed and this causes clipping.
-af volume would probably fix it (maybe it needs some additional filters like
-af volume,format=floatne).