[gentoo-desktop] Totem Movie player and Sound...

[gentoo-desktop] Totem Movie player and Sound...

[Rick Bragg]

I played some DVD discs that I got from a friend mine.  For over a week,
they played perfectly.  Now When I play the same movies, only part of
the audio mix plays.  I can only here the music and sound designer
tracks.  All the dialog tracks are silent!  

The DVD is a simple data disc with .VOB files
I am using a Thinkpad with Gnome.

The properties show that the movie audio is:

Bitrate:        384 kbs
Codec:          AC-3 audio
Sample Rate:    48000 Hz
Channels:       5.1

Video codec is MPEG-2

What did I do?  I may have hit a keyboard key at some point that killed
it, but I have no idea why the dialog traks are gone.

Any suggestions?  
Thanks
rick

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[gentoo-desktop] Re: Totem Movie player and Sound...

[Duncan]

Rick Bragg <lists@gmnet.net> posted
1189457333.7150.16.camel@thor.greenbuzz.net, excerpted below, on  Mon, 10
Sep 2007 20:48:52 +0000:

> I played some DVD discs that I got from a friend mine.  For over a week,
> they played perfectly.  Now When I play the same movies, only part of
> the audio mix plays.  I can only here the music and sound designer
> tracks.  All the dialog tracks are silent!

> What did I do?  I may have hit a keyboard key at some point that killed
> it, but I have no idea why the dialog traks are gone.

I'm no expert on DVDs, but here's the first two things I thought of...

Check the language settings.   Maybe you hit some sort of exotic language 
that the DVD doesn't have, but is letting you set as if it did, for some 
reason.

It could also be audio channel tracking.  Dialog normally comes out of 
the center channel if you have it on multi-channel instead of stereo.  If 
you don't have a center channel but have it set as if you do, you may 
miss most of the dialog, while you'd still here at least some of the 
effects and mix.

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