[MPlayer-users] I have successfully got passthrough of 7.1ch DTS-HD MA and 5.1 TrueHD using aplay working, how long till I can get it from mplayer?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Dark Shadow <shadowofdarkness <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It was awesome since not even my fat PS3 can passthrough HD audio
> (only the slims can) so it was the first time I saw my receiver
> actually report DTS-HD MA or TrueHD instead of linear PCM.
> 
> My question is since these where pre-filtered samples using ffmpeg how
> long till I can get the audio working using mplayer for normal movie
> watching?

Patch welcome!

> A side question would be how can I make my own files to try (I have
> MakeMKV decrypted Blu-Ray backups to get the audio from) All my Google
> searching gives is the same pre-made .spdif files and not a ffmpeg
> command to make them.

ffmpeg -i input -acodec copy output.spdif

> If anyone wants to try this here are the samples I used
> http://www.avenard.org/files/media/mediatest/audiotest/HDAUDIO/Passthrough/
> 
> aplay -D hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3,AES0=6 -c8 -fs16_le -r192000
> testi.dtshd.anssi1.ma-71-24.spdif
> 
> Note for anyone that saw this on the net that I had to modify it a bit
> to work. The original AES=0x06 didn't work for me but AES0=6 did.

I believe this was already corrected in the original thread.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/121073/focus=121128

Carl Eugen