playing DTS in mplayer-bin

deepspace9 · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: playing DTS in mplayer-bin

I want to play decoded DTS with mplayer-bin

I need to use the bin version of mplayer because video is WMV9 :roll:

. The problem is, the sound is DTS, and mplayer bin only does SPDIF passthough, and does not decode the sound to stereo PCM.

yngwin · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

Unmask and emerge mplayer-1.0_rc1 with the dts useflag. The latest (but still masked) versions of ffmpeg, xine-lib and mplayer can play most wmv files now, without using win32codecs. So you can use native 64bit compiled programs.
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deepspace9 · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

Well, that sort of works, but decoding 1080p is not the kind of thing this wmv9 decoder seems to like: It's slow as hell, and any keypress stops the video and audio completely.

CPU power with win32 codecs: about 20% for both CPU's (mean)
CPU power with native wmv9: 100% on one CPU, the other one doing nothing.

Seems to me that there is still a not of stuff needed to get this thing workable!

So thats not an acceptable solution :oops:

Why did they just forget the DTS decoder in the bin distributable :?:

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deepspace9 · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

Well, at least 720p plays acceptable

Though, visually, the native decoder does not really do a good job

Any decent solution for this problem :?:

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