>=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100506 does not work with sound aac (5.1 / 6 channel sound) in the case have become less forbidding stereo (2 channels) ======USE="aac faad faac", =mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1====>> use internal faad Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [avc1] 720x544 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s! AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is 1.32:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [vdpau] 720x544 => 720x544 Planar YV12 A: 72.4 V: 72.4 A-V: -0.000 ct: -0.227 0/ 0 20% 10% 7.3% 0 0 ====USE="aac faad faac" >=mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100506========== VIDEO: [H264] 720x544 0bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s! AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is 1.32:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [vdpau] 720x544 => 720x544 Planar YV12 A: 0.1 V: 0.3 A-V: -0.264 ct: -0.106 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 FAAD: Failed to decode frame: PNS not allowed in DRM data stream 0 FAAD: Failed to decode frame: PNS not allowed in DRM data stream 0 ~~~ FAAD: Failed to decode frame: PNS not allowed in DRM data stream Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 29671654 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. A: 164.4 V: 0.5 A-V:163.871 ct: 0.768 0/ 0 25% 20% 63.6% 1 0 ... ========== Difference of ebuild =========================== =mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1 >>>faad? ( !aac? ( media-libs/faad2 ) >mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1 >>>faad? ( media-libs/faad2 ) ========= USE="-faad aac faac" === >mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1 ao=alsasound - no sound ao=libsdl - Horrible sound! Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_8450_Triple-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:15:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL sun-prerelease-jdk7 skype-eula dlj-1.1 postal2 googleearth AdobeFlash-10" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS=" -O2 -pipe -march=amdfam10 -mtune=amdfam10" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/red5/conf /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb /var/lib/red5-webapps" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS=" -O2 -pipe -march=amdfam10 -mtune=amdfam10" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sets sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/eugene/downloads/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi additions alsa amd64 amr berkdb bindist bzip2 cairo cgi clamav cleartype consolekit cracklib crypt ctype curl custom-cflags cxx dbus djvu dri dv dvd emerald enca encode exif extras faac fastcgi fbcondecor ffmpeg fontconfig fortran ftp fuse gd gecko gif git glitz google-gadgets gphoto2 gpm gstreamer hal hddtemp iconv imagemagick imlib jabber java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde lame lastfm latin1 lcms libnotify lm_sensors lzma mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib multitarget mysql ncurses nls npp nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ objc-gc ogg opencore-amr openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl php plasma png povray pppd python python3 qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar rcc readline reflection rtc samba schroedinger sdl semantic-desktop sensord session skey slang smbclient sndfile source speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification subversion suid svg symlink sysfs syslog taglib tcpd templates theora thumbnail tidy tiff truetype unicode unsupported usb utempter vcd vdpau vorbis vpx webdav-neon wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid yv12 zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="adc65 agfa_cl20 aox barbie canon casio_qv clicksmart310 digigr8 digita dimagev dimera3500 directory enigma13 fuji gsmart300 hp215 iclick jamcam jd11 kodak_dc120 kodak_dc210 kodak_dc240 kodak_dc3200 kodak_ez200 konica konica_qm150 largan lg_gsm mars mustek panasonic_coolshot panasonic_dc1000 panasonic_dc1580 panasonic_l859 pccam300 pccam600 polaroid_pdc320 polaroid_pdc640 polaroid_pdc700 ptp2 ricoh ricoh_g3 samsung sierra sipix_blink sipix_blink2 sipix_web2 smal sonix sony_dscf1 sony_dscf55 soundvision spca50x sq905 stv0674 stv0680 sx330z template toshiba_pdrm11 jl2005a topfield" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It looks like faad is complaining, and it is responsible for the aac decoding, so I'll start out assigning this to sound team to take a look.
with 1.0_rc4_p20111215, i get this with 5.1 aac: ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 258.3 kbit/5.61% (ratio: 32290->576000) Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== so it seems ffmpeg aac is now default and works fine -> closing