[MPlayer-users] dtsPlayback

[Mack Johnson]

It still not working for me. I have a Sony STR-DG720 hooked up to my i5 imac. I'm not getting any sound, the display on my receiver says it is playing in dts mode. Do I need to configure my .mplayer?

mplayer -ac hwdts -channels 6 /Users/ME/Music/DTS\ Audio/Neil\ Young/Neil\ Young\ \&\ Crazy\ Horse.wav 
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
141 audio & 304 video codecs
Can't init Apple Remote.

Playing /Users/ME/Music/DTS Audio/Neil Young/Neil Young & Crazy Horse.wav.
Audio only file format detected.
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwdts
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
hwac3: switched to DTS, 1411200 bps, 44100 Hz
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm: hwac3 (DTS through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
AO: [coreaudio] 44100Hz 2ch ac3 (1 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 127.9 (02:07.9) of 4357.0 ( 1:12:37.0)  0.1% 


On Jun 4, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Dawson wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:08:40PM -0700, Mack Johnson wrote:
>> I'm trying to play this file but I hear no sound. Can someone help me out?
>> 
>> mplayer -afm hwac3 /Users/ME/Desktop/Neil\ Young/Neil\ Young\ \&\ Crazy\ Horse\ -\ Year\ Of\ The\ Horse\ \(DTS\).wav 
> 
> hwac3 is used if you have a hardware Dolby Digital or DTS receiver. Is
> that your setup, or do you want DTS through your soundcard/motherboard?
> If you do have a hardware receiver, make sure it's hooked up and
> configured properly; if you don't, try -afm libdca
> 
> Also, for software decoding, you may want to specify -channels 4 or
> -channels 6 if you have multichannel hardware; otherwise it mixes down
> to 2 channels.
> 
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