[MPlayer-users] Re: Re: How to change audio stream?

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Jan 23, 2006, at 22.12, SeNS wrote:

> Hello, Sebastian!
> You wrote  on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:43:38 +0100:
>
> SK> ..because it's an avi..
>
> SK> I suppose you convert it to matroska (container). It's very  
> easy and
> SK> you will be able to switch audio tracks on the fly via '#' in  
> mplayer.
>
> I did conversion to matroska but resulting mkv file played with  
> some problems (frame drop) on my dxr3-linux box. Yes, the sound  
> streams switches perfectly (and it's very interesting effect :-)  
> but video not acceptable :-(
Well, there are two other solutions.

The first is rather simple. If MKV doesn't suit your purposes (and I  
don't know why that is) try using OGM. It's far pickier about the  
formats it supports, and what it does and does not do, compared to  
MKV, but it might work for your needs.

The second is probably less popular and has no promise of success.  
Use VLC. Win/Mac/Lin versions have multiple audio track support, as  
well as some of the nifty features of MKV (track naming, for one, but  
lacks some of the other features, such as reading the informational  
tags).
>
> I hope the mplayer developers can do that trick (I mean audio-track  
> switching) with avi container... It will be great.
Probably never going to happen. AVI is, in computer age, ancient.  
It's been around for more than 10 years, and is far antiquated for  
such needs. I know that AVIs *can* contain multiple audio tracks, but  
is that part of the AVI specification? I know that they're not  
supposed to contain subtitles, attachments, etc. etc.
>
> WBR, SeNS

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