Tom Killian wrote, On 12/12/2005 04:09 PM:
When I play a particular dvd I get either a loud grating sound with
message about format ao being bad and something about big endian not
supported in AC. Or I get a message that there is just no audio (and get
This happened to me with "Chicken Run". Some DVDs seem to have a
Dolby multi-channel surround-sound track as the default audio, and
mplayer can't handle it. If you run "mplayer -v ...", you'll see
(among other things) a list of the audio tracks and their
corresponding ids. Pick one that mplayer understands and specify it
with the "-aid" option.
Thanks for the sug. I will try that. However, for some reason, I got the
film to play once with default mplayer setup and I was able to see the
whole thing with sound. Then I stopped and restarted mplayer and then
sound was bad and never could get it back. (That's when I started trying
other audio driver selections.)
