[MPlayer-users] problems playing ac3 audio only file

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Heinz Wiesinger <HMWiesinger at bnet.at> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a problem playing an audio file, encoded in ac3 with MPlayer.
>
> MPlayer's output:
> -----------------------
> MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2500  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14,
> Stepping: 8)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
>
> Playing Linkin Park - Cure For The Itch (Video Version).ac3.
> RAWDV file format detected.
> VIDEO:  [DVSD]  720x576  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> [VO_XV] Could not grab port 355.
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
> Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
> Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
> [PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
> VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> VO: [xv] 720x576 => 720x576 Packed YUY2
> Selected video codec: [qdv] vfm: dshow (Sony Digital Video (DV))
> ==========================================================================
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder
> Unknown/missing audio format -> no sound
> ADecoder init failed :(
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> Cannot find codec 'dvaudio' in libavcodec...
> ADecoder init failed :(
> ADecoder init failed :(
> Cannot find codec for audio format 0x56444152.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> Audio: no sound
> Starting playback...
> V:   0.4  10/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
> -----------------------
>
> xine and ffplay are both able to play the file just fine. I also tried "-ac
> ffac3", "-ac a52" and "-af ac3".
> Tested with r28008.

Retry with the option "-demuxer lavf"

Guillaume
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