[plug] Linux and DVD Audio/AC3

[John Knight]

I'm usually the (in)famously zealous guy for this, but t obe honest, I don't 
have any albums on DVD audio! As for normal DVDs though, that I know a bit 
about... :) MPlayer's probably the go for extracting, yeah, but use a 
frontend. MPlayer comes in two parts, mplayer and mencoder, both have 
frontends. Go to mplayerhq.hu and have a look around at the listed 
frontends, and a google probably wouldn't hurt either.

For easy media palyback, xine is your best choice, with great audio setup 
options too. If you look in the links section of these project pages, there 
are lots of smaller, dedicated-niche programs for these kinds of tasks. 
Probably worth having a look around the libac3 docs as well. :)

Cheers!
anarchist tomato

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"


>
>Has anyone had much experience with multi-channel audio under linux?
>I've recently obtained a DVD Video/Audio album, which sounds awesome
>on my home theatre system. I'd really like to be able to extract the
>DD 5.1 audio to a separate file, for playback on PCs.
>
>Is this easy enough to do? What tools are the best to use to extract?
>I suspect mplayer would be able to do it if I juggle options around,
>but are there better ways?
>
>What players support AC3 playback under linux, with support for the
>5.1 speakers?
>
>Any information or pointers to recommended guides would be
>appreciated. Thanks...
>
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