[MPlayer-users] problem with DVD sound

[Damion de Soto]

Bert Haverkamp wrote:

> There are two sound tracks on the dvd. a stereo (lpcm) and 5.1 (dts) track
> I have to add -aid 160 to the command line to get it to work with the lpcm 
> track. But without this option it doesn't work.  Is this a bug in the mplayer 
> track selection algorithm?
Unless you've got a DTS encoder, you'll only be able to play the lpcm track.

DVDs have a 'default' audio track, don't they?
I have to specify -aid on quite a few of mine since I can't play the default track 
because it's DTS or 2 channel instead of 5.1

So, I don't think this is a bug.  I guess a feature request would be a list of 
preferential -aid options that mplayer tries in order.

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