[Mplayer-dvb] Noises while using AC3 over DVB

[Nico]

Sebastian Schöps wrote:

> Nico schrieb:
>
>>
>> -hwac3 just copies the audio stream  from the demuxer to the hw-ac3 
>> passthru;
>> since you may be using 3 different demuxers (PS, TS, AVI) I can't 
>> believe that all of them have the same bug,
>> so either it's a bug in the hwac3 audio-out or your speakers have 
>> some problem; are you sure other programs always
>> play those multichannel audio files correctly?
>
> I tried to play a DVD (DD5.1) via mplayer and the dvd-plugin from VDR 
> (http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/dvd/). Only the mplayer 
> produces the noise in the center speaker. So the question is, what 
> makes the difference between this plugin and mplayer. Do you have a 
> similar configuration (vdr,dvd,ac3,..)? 

no external AC3 decoder,  and I haven't used VDR for a long time (I used 
xvxine as output device)

>
> I have no other players to check, but I think it's obvious, that the 
> problem is mplayer related. Maybe the new kernel is the reason? I'm 
> using mplayer for a long time and this problem is new to me.
>
>> Can you please try to use -novideo instead of -vo mpegpes?
>> Recently someone discovered a bug triggered when you used -vo mpegpes 
>> with -ao != mpegpes, but it
>> manifested itself in a different way; maybe they are unrelated, but 
>> trying doesn't hurt.
>
> I don't have any sound, when using "-novideo".

this is very strange: you should hear sound. And if you use both -vo 
mpegpes -ao mpegpes ?

>
> Thanks again
> -Sebastian
>
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