[MPlayer-users] dts audio CD playback (-ac dtscd) with a52 CRC errors

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 31 March 2006 at 18:30, tech at lsweb.de wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 29 March 2006 at 17:48, Lars Steinke wrote:
> > > Fair enough - I found mention of that -ac dtscd on this mailing list,
> > > so that must be code that obviously didn't make it into cvs...
> > > Irrespectively, there then is the issue why "mplayer -rawaudio
> > > on:format=0x2001 cdda://1" doesn't properly switch to dts?
> > 
> > I don't know. Show full -v output of that command, please.
> > I vaguely remember someone giving a recipe for playing DTS from
> > CD audio, but I don't remember any keywords.
> 
> There you go (I upgraded to Ubuntu's latest package, indeed -ac dtscd is
> no longer in there...) - the problem seems to me, that MPlayer switches
> to AC3 ("hwac3: switched to AC3, 56000 bps, 48000 Hz") even though we
> enforce dts by "-ac hwdts" and "-rawaudio format=0x2001":
> 
> MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer
> Team

This may be a bug in MPlayer, but just to be sure, please retry with
current CVS source. If it still doesn't work, please file a bugreport.

Thanks,
R.

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