On Thursday 20 November 2008 17:48:05 you wrote: > > what are the lengths reported if you run > > > > $ mplayer -novideo -ao pcm:file=test.wav dvd://1 -aid 128 dvd://1 > > $ mplayer -identify test.wav > > > > $ mplayer -novideo -ao pcm:file=test.wav dvd://1 -aid 137 dvd://1 > > $ mplayer -identify test2.wav > > When i do "mplayer dvd://1 -aid 137 -dumpaudio" and then identify > it the length is 5970, but if i run your commands both of the waves > are 6077 seconds. the only reliable length is the one of the wav files; for some reason mencoder doesn't seem to decode the whole dts stream