[LAU] playing a multichannel DVD-A in Linux

Phil Sexton philsexton at infoave.net
Sun May 27 15:34:09 EDT 2007


Hector Centeno wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a DVD-Audio disc with 5.1 channel audio which I can't play
> using my standalone DVD player (it doesn't support DVD-A) so I was
> wondering, is here any way I can play this in my Linux machine
> (providing I have a multichannel audio interface, of course)? I don't
> seem to find any DVD-A software player and the DVD players like
> mplayer and Totem only play the 2-channel+video version that it's also
> included in the disc (inside the VIDEO_TS directory). I can see
> several .aob files in the AUDIO_TS directory, is there any way of
> ripping the 6 channels out of these files in case there is no direct
> way of playing them?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Hector

I haven't had any DVD-Audio discs, but I have had great luck playing 
almost everything with the VLC media player.

http://www.download-all-area.com/vlcplayer/

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