> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ aplay CHCENTER.WAV > > aplay: test_wavefile:689: can't play not PCM-coded WAVE-files > > ac3 is a proprietory format. I doubt alsa has a codec for it. Do you > have an ac3 codec anywhere on your system? > > Volker
good point, well mplayer claims to. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ mplayer -ac help|grep ac3 ac3 libac3 working AC3-libac3 [libac3] hwac3 hwac3 working AC3 through SPDIF hwdts hwac3 working DTS through SPDIF atrac3 acm problems Sony ATRAC3 [atrac3.acm] but mplayer thinks its ogg/vorbis, then cans out: [EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ mplayer CHLFE.WAV MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled 3DNowExt supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow 77 audio & 189 video codecs Playing CHLFE.WAV. Cache fill: 2.80% (235076 bytes) Audio file detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [libvorbis] Ogg/Vorbis audio decoder OggVorbis: initial (identification) header broken! ADecoder init failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec for audio format 0xFFFE. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) never mind i will extract an exciting piece of audio from a dvd, there should be a scene from Star Wars that has plenty of 3d sound (those old sound tracks were remixed to 5.1 for release on dvd). > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- Nick Rout
