Placeshifter audio question?

[Korny]

Any possibilities of compiling mplayer with ac3 support? I can play titles with 2 channel but ac3 titles don't work. Or am I missing something? This is on a Ubuntu 16.04. Movies play fine, but recorded TV shows not so much.
Thanks

./mplayer /mnt/seagate5/sagerecord/NHLHockey-EdmontonOilersatMinnesotaWild-1580359-0.ts 
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.8 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 60, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing /mnt/seagate5/sagerecord/NHLHockey-EdmontonOilersatMinnesotaWild-1580359-0.ts.
DEBUG - active_file=0 circFileSize=0
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=256) AUDIO A52(pid=257) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1
INITIAL_PTS=0.816422
TS_PARSE: COULDN'T SYNC
DURATION=11462.758789
VIDEO:  MPEG2  1280x720  (aspect 3)  59.940 fps  25000.0 kbps (3125.0 kbyte/s)
SUB: Could not determine file format
Cannot load subtitles: /mnt/seagate5/sagerecord/NHLHockey-EdmontonOilersatMinnesotaWild-1580359-0.txt
vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
[cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [null] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Mpeg PES 
Selected video codec: [mpegpes] vfm: mpegpes (MPEG-PES output (.mpg or DXR3/IVTV/DVB card))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [hwac3] (afm=hwac3) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2000.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [null] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Mpeg PES 
V:  135.2 P:242491635 8061/8061  0%  0%  0.0% 0 0                               

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer

Input #0, mpegts, from '/mnt/seagate5/sagerecord/NHLHockey-EdmontonOilersatMinnesotaWild-1580359-0.ts':
  Duration: 03:11:02.83, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 14223 kb/s
  Program 1 
    Metadata:
      service_name    : Service01
      service_provider: FFmpeg
    Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p(tv), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], Closed Captions, max. 25000 kb/s, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
    Stream #0:1[0x101](eng): Audio: ac3 ([129][0][0][0] / 0x0081), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s
    Stream #0:2[0x102](spa): Audio: ac3 ([129][0][0][0] / 0x0081), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s

[stuckless]

I personally don't have an issue enabling it... And I think it's as simple as including the library and then removing the --disable flag on mplayer. But the library is part of the non-free codecs in ubuntu, and as such, sagetv likely didn't use it for legal reasons. I'm not sure Jeff has any issues with us enabling this or not... so I'll have to wait for his input. Or there might be another reason he disabled it, not sure.

[Korny]

Do I need to message him or should we just wait until he reads the thread?
Thanks

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Korny

Do I need to message him or should we just wait until he reads the thread?
Thanks

He's usually pretty good at keeping up to date with the forums... but you can PM him if you want.

[Narflex]

I have no problem with enabling AC3 in the mplayer build...not sure why we didn't have it enabled already.

[Korny]

yeah! A more functional linux placeshifter!

[dranockcir]

Please do enable AC3! I use Linux clients in my house and on laptops and can't use placeshifter locally, have an awesome picture but no sound. I use Android client on Shield and Nexus tablets and a Galaxy Note 4, all work great but I do have a couple of bedroom PC's that use Ubuntu and have been using Plex on them as the player. Not a bad thing, Plex is awesome but I would love to just use all Sage. :-)

[Narflex]

You should probably add an issue in the tracker on the GitHub project...that'll increase the chance of somebody doing this.

[dranockcir]

Originally Posted by Narflex

You should probably add an issue in the tracker on the GitHub project...that'll increase the chance of somebody doing this.

Did it. Just hope I did it right.

[dranockcir]

Thanks for adding AC3 support in Mplayer for Linux clients! Tried it out on 2 desktops and 2 laptops, it's like Christmas three days early.