LinuxQuestions.org - Mplayer woes: "[format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported"

ive looked all over google at this point to find a definitive correction to this most annoying issue with mplayer. im trying to play a dvd via mplayer and the sound output is nothing but fuzzy/loud noise accompanied by this error "[format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported". the annoying this is that this problem doesnt exist with xine. so what would xine be doing that mplayer is not doing as far as this sound issue.

i keep bumping into this libdts as a possible fix, however after installing that and recompiling mplayer, i still got no lovin.

anyhelp here would be greatly appreciated, for this is drivin me crazy.

Code:

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[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to ac3 output, trying s16le...

AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

[format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported 

[libaf] Reinitialization did not work, audio filter 'format' returned error code -2

Couldn't find matching filter/ao format!

Starting playback...

VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)

VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)

Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.

VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 

A:  1.6 V:  1.6 A-V: -0.001 ct:  0.027  42/ 40  7%  3% 42.4% 5 0 

demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.

A:  5.8 V:  5.8 A-V:  0.004 ct:  0.063 143/140  9%  2% 14.1% 5 0