[MPlayer-users] Audio codec problem

Fri Aug 4 17:06:36 CEST 2006

On Friday, 04 August 2006 at 16:29, Alex Waterman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When playing a DVD (Pulp Fiction, gotten of netflix) I have trouble playing
> the sound. The video is
> fine but the sound gets turned into this really high pitched
> squealing/squeaking sound.
> 
> I scrolled up the output from my terminal and found this:
> 
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> Cannot find codec 'dts' in libavcodec...

Quite obvious, isn't it?

You need libdts installed before compiling MPlayer.

I suggest using the official RPM packages, since you're using FC4.

> And one last question, does mplayer need a running X server to play audio?

No.

> So if I were to run mplayer to play an mp3 from a box with no X server
> will it work?

Yes.

Regards,
R.

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