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

[John Finlay]

On 1/12/11 12:09 PM, Robert McNamara wrote:
> 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.
>
My experience with 0.24 playing dvd iso images has been not much 
improvement since 0.21. Virtually none of my unencrypted iso images will 
play from storage groups and even when playing iso images from an nfs 
mount the player has problems handling the menu navigation similar to 
problems I saw with 0.21 or just crashes the frontend. Unfortunately, I 
have no idea what information I should collect to help the developers 
debug the problems I'm seeing and the logging seems to have little 
useful information. Most times I fire up VLC to view a dvd iso image; it 
seems to reliably navigate and play dvd iso images.

John