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1st May 2011, 16:48 | #1 | Link |
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on-the-fly AC3 encoding for 6 channel AAC files (mplayer)
My old Yamaha receiver is not able to play 6 channel AAC but just AC3 or DTS audio. So I always on-the-fly encode those 6ch AAC audio tracks to AC3 audio tracks using mplayer-mt (debian).
I just updated mine Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and now I have channel mapping issue. AC3/DTS files plays on the correct speakers. So my speaker setting should be ok. When I try to play video file that contains 6ch AAC audio track that is on-the-fly encoded to AC3 audio --> I hear those test sounds on the wrong speakers. Example CENTER is REAR RIGHT etc... Dolby Digital icon lights up always on my receievr so I know that AC3 transcoding is not the problem. Here is command line example how you can on-the-fly encode multichannel AAC audio track to AC3 track. mplayer-mt -ao alsa -ac hwdts, -ac hwac3, -af channels=6,lavcac3enc=1:640:3 6ch_aac.mp4 I have put those config options to .mplayer/config file: Code:
# Device and passthrough #===================== ao=alsa:device=hw=0.1 #For both AC-3 and DTS passthroug, use -afm hwac3 afm=hwac3, channels=6 #lavcac3enc[=tospdif[:bitrate[:minchn]]] af=scaletempo,lavcac3enc=1:640:3 mplayer-mt movie_name.avi/mkv/mp4 Test videos: 6ch aac test video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26249587/6ch_aac.mp4 6ch ac3 test video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26249587/6ch_ac3.avi I tried to remap those channels but I always lost one channel (Surround Left). mplayer-mt -ac hwdts,hwac3, -channels 6 -af channels=6:6:0:0:1:2:4:1:3:4:5:3:2:2,lavcac3enc=1:640 6ch_aac.mp4 Now I don’t know hove to solve this problem. I hope someone of you have some tips for me because it worked that way in Debian Lenny and I don't know why those channels are now mapped to the wrong speakers. Also I only have one 6ch AAC test video and I want to be sure that it contains those channels in right order. Can someone test it? If someone have some other AAC surround test files, please, let me know. -josk Last edited by josk; 1st May 2011 at 16:54. |
2nd May 2011, 09:06 | #3 | Link | |
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I don’t know why but at the moment without channel mapping I hear sounds these ways: My speaker => I hear FL => FL + LFE CENTER => FR FR => SL SR => CENTER LFE => SR Why those channels are in disorder? Any ideas? I have tried to fix channel ordering and I almost was able to fix all channels. Still the SL is mute and FL plays two different channels. I think it would help for fixing the issue if I got some clue what is main reason that those channels are in disorder. This situation is only with multichannel AAC files, not AC3/DTS files. SNEAKER: Could you tell version of mplayer and distro? Or have you combined mplayer by yourself? Last edited by josk; 2nd May 2011 at 09:09. |
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2nd May 2011, 20:44 | #4 | Link | |
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The voice saying the word "LFE" comes from the left front speaker and only the "grumbling" from the subwoofer, btw. That seems to be intended and not an (additional) error in your configuration. |
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3rd May 2011, 21:09 | #5 | Link |
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Problem solved, I remapped my channels and now that 6ch aac on-the-fly-encoding works like it should be!
mplayer-mt -ac hwdts,hwac3, -channels 6 -af channels=6:6:0:0:2:5:1:2:4:1:3:4:5:3,lavcac3enc=1:640 6ch_aac.mp4 That 6:6:0:0:2:5:1:2:4:1:3:4:5:3 means 6:6 => Total 6 channels and I moved those channels 6 times 0=FRONT LEFT (This was OK! So I just copied that channel to itself => 0:0) 1=FRONT RIGHT (I heard SURROUND LEFT, so I moved it to the correct channel => 1:2) 2=SURROUND LEFT (I heard LFE, so I moved it to the correct channel => 2:5) 3=SURROUND RIGHT (I heard CENTER, so I moved it to the correct channel => 3:4) 4=CENTER (I heard FRONT RIGHT, so I moved it to the correct channel => 4:1) 5=LFE (I heard SURROUND RIGHT, so I moved it to the correct channel => 5:3) So I added this to my .mplayer/config Code:
# Device and passthrough #===================== # Default device ao=alsa (or u could define more detailed: ao=alsa:device=hw=0.1) ao=alsa:device=hw=0.1 #For both AC-3 and DTS passthroug, use -afm hwac3 afm=hwac3, channels=6 #lavcac3enc[=tospdif[:bitrate[:minchn]]] af=scaletempo,channels=6:6:0:0:2:5:1:2:4:1:3:4:5:3,lavcac3enc=1:640:3 |
26th November 2014, 20:17 | #6 | Link |
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Old topic but here is correct syntax if you need it to getting work on MPV (MPlayer fork):
http://shellscreen.blogspot.fi/2014/...coding-on.html |
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