Using DVD players headphones?

[hyrum]

I have a TEAC DVD player and have never been able to plug my headphones into the drive itself and listen to the DVDs audio. Stupid me bought a set of speakers with no headphone jacks

But why won't the audio come through like it does for my CD player?

 

[Kingofcomputer]

call it dvd-rom drive,
dvd player means those desktop standalone dvd player.

the headphones jack on dvd-rom drive is same as the one on cd-rom drive,
for music cd only.

 

[Pariah]

DVD players can't decode DVD audio. Either a hardware decoder or the DVD software player has to decode the audio.

 

[Nefrodite]

thats right, dvdrom drives do no actual mpeg stream decoding, so the only thing you'll ever hear out of the useless headphone jack is cd music. just get a good software player like windvd 3, which has dolby headphones for simluated 5.1 or whatever through headphones it also simulates different listening enviroments, not perfect, but better then plain stereo headphones.