[MPlayer-users] Sound Error

[Jose Sanchez]

Ok,I reinstalled mplayer but it was not useful.
Now the error message is:
can not find codec 'dts' in libavcodec...

How can I solve this problem?

Thank you.

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:51:15 -0500, The Wanderer
<inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> Jose Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:06:58 -0500, The Wanderer
> > <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Jose Sanchez wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have just to install mplayer in SuSE 9.2.
> >>>
> >>> I can see DVD, but the sound don't work.
> >>>
> >>> Mplayer give me the next message: " Couldn't find matching
> >>> filter/ao format!"
> >>>
> >>> I am using gmplayer.
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone help me?
> >>
> >> In order to potentially help you, we need at minimum the *exact*
> >> command line you used (and/or, alternatively because you're using
> >> GMPlayer, the exact state of your configuration options) and the
> >> *exact* text output by the player - copy-and-paste in both cases,
> >> not retyped, and with nothing snipped out.
> 
> > Ok, thank you.
> 
> You didn't provide the requested configuration information, but I
> managed to figure something out anyway. It's not something very helpful,
> but I never promised that.
> 
> > This is the output:
> 
> > Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> > Cannot find codec 'dts' in libavcodec...
> > ADecoder init failed :(
> > ADecoder init failed :(
> > Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through SP/DIF
> > No accelerated IMDCT transform found
> > hwac3: switched to DTS, 768000 bps, 48000 Hz
> > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x400), ratio: 96000->192000 (768,0 kbit)
> > Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm:hwac3 (DTS through SPDIF)
> 
> This seems fine, at least on the surface of it.
> 
> > Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/8bit...
> > AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, big endian AC3
> > AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch AC3
> > [AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to AC3 output, trying S16...
> > AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
> > Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > [format] Sample format big endian AC3  not yet supported
> > [libaf] Reinitialization did not work, audio filter 'format' returned
> > error code -2
> > Couldn't find matching filter/ao format!
> 
> Okay, I'm not remotely an expert on audio (or even on MPlayer's handling
> of it), but: from what I can see it looks like MPlayer needs - or thinks
> it needs - to convert the audio from the DVD into a different format
> before being able to play it on your hardware, and the audio filter
> which it tries to use to do that does not support the format which needs
> to be converted.
> 
> I don't have the technical background to have the wherewithal to help
> you any further on this, but it's possible that someone else with more
> familiarity with MPlayer internals may be able to figure out how you
> might be able to get things to work.
> 
> --
>        The Wanderer
> 
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> 
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