Resolved (Re: Soundproblems with dvbin (was Re: [MPlayer-users] couldn't play with dvb://))

[Nico Sabbi]

Falko Pilz wrote:

>Hello,
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>bingo thats it.
>Some one at Mandrake  recommends this config for DVD so 
>nobody things about crashing sound at DVBIN.
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this someone at Mdk doesn't know that when you specify -alang x you 
don't get sound != x
when playing dvds


>Is there a line in the manual which I hasn't read?
>This behaviour(2 different meanings of one switch) isn't userfriendly.
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-alang indicates the language in the most general form.
The 2 implementation of audio selection in demux_ts and demux_mpg do 
exactly the same
thing (but in a different manner) keeping consistency, so why do you say 
that they follow
2 behaviours?


>Thanks again and regards
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>Falko
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>On Wed, 12 May 2004 09:58:20 +0200
>Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
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>>solved:
>>in your ~/.mplayer/config file you have
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>>alang=de
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>>which obviously requires all audio streams in all the files you play
>>to be german.
>>Some demuxers don't even check this parameter (because  not every file
>>format
>>has language identifiers), but demux_ts does, and doesn't give you an 
>>audio track that you didn't
>>request (and besides, languages in DVB are identified by 3 letters,
>>not 2 as in DVDs),
>>so if you want to hear something remove or comment that row in your 
>>config file.
>>
>>    Nico
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