[mythtv-users] Internal Player selecting the wrong audio track

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I could be wrong, but I believe it chooses the first appropriate audio track
>>> for your speaker configuration.  So if you have a 5.1 AC3 and a stereo AC3
>>> track and only two speakers, logically it will choose the stereo track.
>>> Unfortunately, in your case the stereo track is the commentary, not a
>>> downmix.  Not sure if there is a way to change that.
>>
>> This is incorrect.  MythTV will attempt to choose the best available
>> codec, with the greatest number of channels, in the highest bitrate,
>> in your frontend language.  Failing that, it will attempt to select
>> your guide language, and in the absence of language information, it
>> will attempt to select by best codec, bitrate, and number of channels.
>>  Codec selection does not take into account your speaker configuration
>> in any way.  If the wrong track is being selected, It is often a
>> mastering issue.
>>
>> DVD Playback is one place where everyone who cares about it absolutely
>> should be running .24.  Mark Kendall put more work into solidifying
>> DVD playback than anyone has done in many releases, and I daresay it's
>> more stable and reliable than it has been in a long time, if not ever.
>
> Funnily enough I see many problems described by other users with DVD
> iso playback in 0.24, including unencrypted isos not working over
> SG's, attempting to play an iso resulting in the system trying to play
> a physical DVD and others.

If it accesses the physical DVD, then the image isn't unencrypted.

Robert