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

Giacomo Comes comes at naic.edu
Mon Feb 5 16:08:13 CET 2007


On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:48:18PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure the problem is with libdts and not mplayer?
Why then xine can play six channels dts without problem?
For what I remember mplayer's limitation is due to the fact that apparently nobody 
cares to add full six channels support for dts audio in mplayer itself.

Ciao
Giacomo



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