[MPlayer-users] WMV3 files look much better in WMP10

[Axel Boldt]

>Roberto Togni wrote:
>This file has multiple audio and video tracks, 

>============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 >stream count=[0x6][6]
>  stream id=[0x1][1]
>  max bitrate=[0x8bdd][35805]
>  stream id=[0x2][2]
>  max bitrate=[0x5b9a][23450]
>  stream id=[0x3][3]
>  max bitrate=[0x4c6a3][312995]
>  stream id=[0x4][4]
>  max bitrate=[0x3e7fb][255995]
>  stream id=[0x5][5]
>  max bitrate=[0x1addb][110043]
>  stream id=[0x6][6]
>  max bitrate=[0xc70b][50955]
>============ ASF Stream group == END ===
>Found movie at 0x1B3D - 0x39EC3D
>ASF: 2 audio and 4 video streams found
>Auto-selected ASF video ID = 6
>ASF: Searching for audio stream (id:-1).
>Auto-selected ASF audio ID = 2

>MPlayer autoselects the last audio and video tracks, but they are not
>the highest quality ones.
>You have to manually selects the best tracks looking at the bitrate
>and using -aid and -vid, in this case try -aid 1 -vid 3

Thanks, that explains it. The question remains, of course, why mplayer would auto-select the last track. Is there a rationale behind it?

Axel