So maybe it is just FOTR. I will try other DVDs as soon as I get home.
BuckleberryFerry As far as I know - getting your wires crossed would either cause your sound to swap sides (left-right) or no sound at all (if you plugged your video wire into the sound plug)
Well, I most certainly have sound–the score will blast your windows out. Left to right switching would make little difference, I would think. Maybe it’s just the DVD–I’ve not had this problem with any other DVDs to date. Thank you greatly for the input, Lobsang.
~Ferry
If your speakers are connected with plain bare wires and not plugs at the rear of the speaker, make sure that the speakers have the same polarity. If, by chance, you wire each one with a different earth the volume will be reduced as the speakers are out of phase.
Love your quote BuckleberryFerry. And thanks for the appreciation. But you should get far better input than mine, in time.
Sorry, sig, not quote.
don’t ask, I’ve got plugs from the back of my DVD player to the front of my TV.
Lobsang Yeah, that’s my favorite scene off the extended DVD–and that’s really saying something!
Thanks again for all the input!!!
~Ferry
I sorted it! In the DVD software options I pick ‘enable SPDIFF output’ instead of ‘6 speaker (dolby 5.1)’ and A) the sound is much better and b) the voices are clear and audible.
Apparently the spdiff thing means the software can send the compressed spdiff signal through the soundcard to be processed (divided up to the correct speakers) by the 5.1 speaker system.
I discovered this while noseying all the advanced options in the mixer. I read the help on one of them - (Ac3 decode) and it said
Right now I am watching LOTR:FOTR. I look forward to BuckleberryFerry’s favourite scene (I have not seen the extended version yet, so have not seen the scene)
Thanks to all for the help.
Lobsang, are you playing the DVD on your computer? Or is this option somewhere on the menu on the DVD?
~Ferry
Ferry,
Since you’re watching the DVD on a set top player, to your TV, check under the audio options of the DVD menu, and see if there’s an option for just Stereo. If the DVD player is trying to output 5.1 sound, it may be dropping the center channel audio.
Also check the options of the DVD player itself, there may be an option for stereo playback there.
thank you, Atrael,! I’ll be sure to check that the next time I watch FOTR.
~Ferry
Oh damn! I forgot to mention in the OP that I am playing it on a computer.
Yes blue, I was playing it on a computer. The only option in the DVD is dolby 5.1. I would assume your dvd player (if not on a computer) would automatically do the spdiff thing if 5.1 speakers are plugged in.
blue? where did I get ‘blue’ from? I meant to say Buckle.
BTW Buckle - it was hardly a massive belch (it would have been funnier if it was) - it was more of a tiny squeak.
Lobsang, perhaps I was only remembering it as a ‘massive belch.’ I’ve only seen it once. I do believe, however, that I got Legolas’ line exact…?? I’ll be sure to change it and have Pippin squeak. And I suppose I’ll just have to live with the voices. Oh well. Thanks a million!
~Ferry