[MPlayer-users] dvd audio stream selection

[Nico Sabbi]

Robert Henney wrote:
> when using neither option though, how does mplayer select the default
> audio stream? 
the first it finds the stream
>  a seemingly random (but consistent for each dvd) stream
> is choosen by mplayer for me.  I'm sure there's some criteria being
> emplayed, but I don't know what it is and it frequently falls onto a
> less than ideal stream, such as one with an incorrect number of audio
> channels for what was given with -channels,
-channels describes the number of channels to be decoded
(if there are enough), so it's related to output, not to input
>  when a different stream
> would have matched the correct number of channels.  another curiosity is
> that the stream that gets automatically chosen does not appear to get
> identified in the output, even with -v.  it'd be useful to know. :)
>
> I do already know one way around this issue is to run with -v and then
> choose and force with -aid, but is there some way to tell mplayer to
> prefer streams which have the number of channels given with -channels
> over streams that don't?  just seems that if it is already trying to
> select a preferred stream based on some criteria, taking into
> consideration the number of audio channels would be a nice bonus.
>   

no way
 
 
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