[Tfug] DVD-Audio in Linux

[Christopher Robbins]

On 5/31/07, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I just bought an album, by the Flaming Lips if you're wondering, and along
> with a normal audio CD it also came with a 5.1 surround DVD-Audio version.
> Great, I thought, as I have four speakers on my PC and the Ogg format also
> supports more than two channels in the file.
>
> But... I can't seem to find any information on how I might possibly play
> this
> thing under Linux, let alone rip the contents.  Even Google turned up
> rather
> little information, which doesn't bode well for my chances.
>
> Does anybody here have pointers on how I might play/rip this disc in
> Linux?
> If I could get some multi-channel oggs out of it (for playback in Linux)
> I'd
> even consider doing the actual ripping in Windows.
>
> For now I'll just listen to the old-school two-channel audio like some
> sort of
> unenlightened caveman...  :)



VLC might be a good start, though MPlayer is worth a shot as well.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=174&sid=67a1069b4f9601a2ed9215a1f58d9a3a

This (while not particularly helpful) at least indicates that VLC can handle
DVD-audio.

Hopefully some more digging will turn something up.

  - Chris

 PS - I noticed your Sam and Max sig...Have you touched the recent series?
Just curious, as I
        played the old Sam and Max and was interested in giving the new game
a shot.


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Chris Robbins
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