Correct, I was assuming English and we all know about assuming. You can
run mplayer -v filename to see what languages that the rip supports. If
it is something other than 128 the you place a config file in that
users .mplayer directory located in their home directory. For most
people this will be:<br>
<br>
~/.mplayer/movietitle.ext.conf<br>
<br>
So if you are trying to fix a language problem for a movie such as Bad
Boys II, which is one that will not work correctly then you rip it and
then run:<br>
<br>
mplayer -v The\ Matrix.vob<br>
<br>
The will show something like this about 10% down in the output:<br>
<br>
found audio track 0<br>
found audio track 129<br>
found audio track 128<br>
<br>
In this case since 129, french, is the first on in the list it defaults
to that unless you specify 128 for english. So by adding the line<br>
<br>
aid=128<br>
<br>
to the mplayer config file located on most systems at<br>
<br>
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf<br>
<br>
It will default to 128 instead of 129. I had on movie that I was
backing up that used 1 instead of 128, Reindeer Games. So to fix it on
a movie by movie basis change in to your users home directory and then
go in to the .mplayer directory. For most people this will be:<br>
<br>
cd ~/.mplayer/<br>
<br>
Once their you will create a custom config file for just that movie by
creating a file with the full filename of the movie including the
extension and adding config to the end. So for Reindeer Games it ended
up being:<br>
<br>
Reindeer_Games.avi.conf<br>
<br>
Inside of that file you just need one line that says<br>
<br>
aid=1<br>
<br>
Good luck and I hope this helps some other people that where having
this problem. I have to admit I had no idea how nice it was to be able
to jump from movie to movie showing off action scenes to impress
friends and family with your new surround sound or TV. Happy Mything<br>
<br>
Allan Wilson<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fedor Pikus</b> <<a href="mailto:fpikus@gmail.com">fpikus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/16/05, Allan Wilson <<a href="mailto:allanwilson@gmail.com">allanwilson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> After working on it off and on I have all my dvd's, except one, with the<br>> correct audio. The problem was that no matter what I did in the myth
<br>> configuration some dvd's would play the wrong audio. To fix this I just had<br>> to add the following line to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file:<br>><br>> aid=128<br><br>This speciifies which audio channel to use (you can see which ones you
<br>have by running lsdvd, or mplayer -v). You're expliting the fact that<br>most DVDs start with aid 128, and most English-language DVDs, at least<br>the ones sold in the US, have English sound track first. If at least<br>
one of these assumptions is false, your method won't work and you'll<br>have to add an override on the command line.<br>You can also try alang=en, this should work independently of aid as<br>long as DVD has proper langiage codes. If you watch DVDs with no
<br>English track sometimes, you could even do alang=en,fr for example -<br>English with fallback to French if no English track exists.<br><br>><br>> For some reason it would not read the line correctly in Myth but it works
<br>> fine if you put it in mplayers config file. The only problem I have left is<br>> that one movie out of 13 is using 1 instead of 128. I read somewhere that<br>> you can specify a config file per movie while reading about subtitles. Does
<br>> anyone have any details on this. I thought for the rare movie that 128<br>> doesn't work on I can throw a quick config file for that movie and specify<br>> the correct aid. Thanks for everyone's help especially Ryan.
<br>><br>> Allan Wilson<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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