On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:39:27 +0200, Udo Richter <udo_richter@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 02.09.2009 07:49, John Robinson wrote: >> I would very much like to >> hear the main programme's soundtrack and the audio description track at >> the same time, but at the moment, I can only hear one or the other - not >> both. > > Hmmm, interesting task. However, I don't think that this is possible > currently. Output devices are currently designed to handle one audio > channel, not multiple at the same time. Mixing them to one would require > decompressing and re-compressing them and would probably introduce > timing issues. > > There may be a quirked solution like playing back the second channel > externally, like connecting to it using mplayer+streamdev, however thats > not very comfortable. > > The best solution is probably a dedicated plugin that connects to live > view and plays the secondary audio track in parallel. However I don't > think that such a plugin exists currently. > Not sure this helps, but mplayer manages to do this with vdr recordings. Isn't there a script somewhere that uses mplayer as the playback device? -- Scott _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
