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

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Mon Feb 5 23:00:16 CET 2007


Hello,
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:08:13AM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> 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:
[...]
> > > 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.

The problem actually was in ffmpeg, it was known (at least to me), and
was just fixed in latest SVN.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger



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