[gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!
Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception: I only /see/ the actors moving their mouths...there his not a single voice audible. Background sound and everything else is fine. I tried to increase the volume of all suspicious levels of alsamixer and checked for muted channels but no success. I recompiled mplayer and vlc -- no effect. System: Linux 3.10.12 #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux media-libs/alsa-lib 1.0.27.2 (-alisp -debug -doc -python ABI_MIPS=-n32 -n64 -o32 ABI_X86=64 -32 -x32 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7) and two simple speakers (stereo) via simple earphone jack What is going on here? ;) Thank you very much for any help in advance! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception: I only /see/ the actors moving their mouths...there his not a single voice audible. Background sound and everything else is fine. I tried to increase the volume of all suspicious levels of alsamixer and checked for muted channels but no success. I recompiled mplayer and vlc -- no effect. Sounds like your channel mixing is misconfigured. Unfortunately I can only give you that pointer, but not how to dereference it. ;-) The player thinks you have some kind of surround system, so you only hear two out of x channels. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. Dyslexics of the world, untie! signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de [13-09-19 17:40]: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception: I only /see/ the actors moving their mouths...there his not a single voice audible. Background sound and everything else is fine. I tried to increase the volume of all suspicious levels of alsamixer and checked for muted channels but no success. I recompiled mplayer and vlc -- no effect. Sounds like your channel mixing is misconfigured. Unfortunately I can only give you that pointer, but not how to dereference it. ;-) The player thinks you have some kind of surround system, so you only hear two out of x channels. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. Dyslexics of the world, untie! HiFrank, thanks for your help! I will try to use it as *help. :) Whats interesting with all that is: previously (read before that problem) everyhing works fine. And then ...once in a sudden... something had shuffled the channels. Is there any /sys/... or /proc/... entry to which I could shout stereo to switch back to good 'ole stereo instead of this surround stuff ? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!
On 09/19/2013 05:36 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception: I only /see/ the actors moving their mouths...there his not a single voice audible. Background sound and everything else is fine. Sounds like your channel mixing is misconfigured. Unfortunately I can only give you that pointer, but not how to dereference it. ;-) The player thinks you have some kind of surround system, so you only hear two out of x channels. alsamixer (from command line) should show if ALSA is configured for multichannel mode and give the option to change to plain stereo.
