[MPlayer-users] problems playing ac3 audio only file

[Heinz Wiesinger]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 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"

Ah, yes. Forgot about that one. But it doesn't help either:
--------------------
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.


Exiting... (End of file)
--------------------

when starting in verbose mode I also get this:
--------------------
Playing Linkin Park - Cure For The Itch (Video Version).ac3.
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/hwiesinger/.mplayer/sub/'
[file] File size is 1532160 bytes
STREAM: [file] Linkin Park - Cure For The Itch (Video Version).ac3
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
LAVF_check: no clue about this gibberish!
--------------------

Grs,
Heinz
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