[MPlayer-users] Re: How can I hear dts?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 05 February 2007 at 08:30, Robert Henney wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:01:06PM -0800, RC wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:33:15 +0100
> > Pepe <rvm3000 at ya.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> > > Cannot find codec 'dts' in libavcodec...
> > > ADecoder init failed :(
> > > ADecoder init failed :(
> > 
> > You need libdts installed
> 
> I have been able to get libdts to work, but all the 6/7 channel dts
> tracks I have tried are treated as stereo.  mplayer does see the
> track for what it is (eg. "audio stream: 1 format: dts (5.1)") but even
> with "-channels 6" the ffdts codec prints "AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch,
> s16le, 768.0 kbit/50.00%" and only stereo is heard.

Yes, it's a limitation of libdts. We can't do anything about it until
somebody adds support for that to libdts or writes a more capable DTS
decoder for ffmpeg.

Regards,
R.

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