[MPlayer-users] Can't get English audio track to play from a Blu-Ray

[Jonathan Busby]

I have been trying to play J.J. Abrams "Star Trek" with audio via
optical SPDIF passthrough from my motherboard's back panel TOSLINK
connection to my Yamaha RX-V867 receiver.

The problem isn't that I can't hear anything -- I can -- but that when
I cycle through the audio tracks in mplayer with the # key to get to
the English track I get the message "Audio: disabled" .
Note that I don't have this problem if I use mplayer's software audio
decoding and output to my internal 5.1 analog surround with the
receiver set to "multi external input" mode.

Here is the STDERR/STDOUT output :


mplayer -fs br:// -bluray-device ./tmp -ac hwac3 -ao alsa
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
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 br://.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=4113) AUDIO A52(pid=4354) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1
FPS seems to be: 23.976025
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwac3
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
hwac3: switched to AC3, 640000 bps, 48000 Hz
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3be, 640.0 kbit/41.67% (ratio: 80000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] Format ac3be is not supported by hardware, trying default.
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12  [fs]
[ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!
[ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwac3
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3be, 224.0 kbit/14.58% (ratio: 28000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] Format ac3be is not supported by hardware, trying default.
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3le (2 bytes per sample)
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwac3
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x44485254.
V:  18.2 158/158 51% 11%  0.8% 26 0
Exiting... (Quit)

The only audio I can listen too is the director commentary and the
Spanish track.

Any help is appreciated.

Jonathan