[MPlayer-users] Wrong Audio track played

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:28:25PM -0400, Mark Veinot wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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> I've also noticed that on occiasion mplayer won't pick the right
> audio track... I suspect this is more an inconsistancy with the way
> that DVD was produced than a real mplayer bug (even though hardware
> DVD players seem to "Do the Right Thing(tm)")

I think "doing the right thing" requires handling the menu/bytecode
mess, which is undesirable. I wish there was a way to make aid=128
default for DVD's, since it's always the right track (the primary
language), but if you put aid=128 in your config file then all non-DVD
movies will fail to play. :(

> Usually adding -aid 128 to the options plays the correct track,
> otherwise, you can start mplayer with -v and look at the verbose
> startup messages, it will list all the audio tracks it found and
> their corresponding aid's.
> 
> As for the menu system, mplayer currently doesn't support DVD menus.
> There was an attempt a while back to use libdvdnav to do it, but I
> don't think that it actually works very well/at all. You can compile
> mplayer with the support if you like though... Look in the configure
> - --help options.
> 
> For now, just play the movie track (almost always track 1) with -dvd
> 1

It's title 1 on good movies. On junk (Disney comes to mind), the first
few titles are previews and crap (which are unskippable if you use a
hardware player).

Rich