[MPlayer-users] playing blu-ray discs with TrueHD or PCM tracks

[Kevin Kloster]

Hello -

I am able to play blu-ray discs fantastically with mplayer.  the problem 
i am having is that if the disc has only a TrueHD or PCM english audio 
track, i can't get mplayer to play any audio.  (i am running 64-bit linux).

I am running svn of both mplayer and ffmpeg.  i have tried every 
combination of demuxer (lavf, mpegts, mpegps, mpegpes, etc.) and audio 
codec (mlp, ffmlp, pcm, dvdpcm, etc) that i can think of (that might 
work) and i always get "NO AUDIO!" (but the video plays fine) except if 
i try to use the lavf demuxer, in which case the console freezes with 
the line: "libavformat file format detected." and never goes anywhere.

I keep reading that mplayer (or rather ffmpeg) has added TrueHD/MLP 
support officially now - shouldn't that mean support for TrueHD tracks 
at least?  has anyone gotten TrueHD tracks or PCM tracks to play from 
blu-ray discs in mplayer?

I'd really appreciate some help!  please let me know if i need to supply 
more information (or maybe submit a bug report?  i don't know if this is 
really a bug or just functionality that hasn't been completely added yet 
- or just my own ineptitude!).  thanks,

- k