[MPlayer-users] Multichannel DTS with MPlayer

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/2/9, Richard Bromley <rbromley256 at gmail.com>:
> Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to get multichannel (5.1) DTS
> output with MPlayer. Multichannel support via the -channels option
> works perfectly for Dolby Digital but is ignored by DTS, which is
> always downmixed to 2 channels. I have the latest libdts installed on
> my system (Linux/x86) and Xine, another video player, has full,
> working 5.1 DTS support.
>
> Can anyone make any suggestions or clarifications? Thanks.

MPlayer should work just fine, as dts is handled thought libavcodec,
that uses libdts if available...