DVD Playing Software

[ragefire]

Ok guys,

I'm having lots of trouble with this and I'm getting a little frustrated. I'm trying to play a DVD, any DVD and I can't get VLC to work, nor Windows Media Player. I've even went out and got Media Player Classic and Media Player Classic Cinema and nothing will work. My issue is that I can't get some sound to work. By "some sound" I mean everything that isn't background noise. What came to my mind when trying to describe the sounds I was hearing from those I could not was that the sounds I could hear were probably edited in later, and the original stuff (talking by main characters for instance) I can't hear. Odd right?

Anywho, I'm stumped. Any thoughts/suggestions?

Much appreciated,
~rage

[D-Bone]

Well, since you have tried 3 different pieces of software, its most likely a sound driver or setting within the driver that is the problem.

It sounds like maybe you are getting the rear channel audio as your main sound source. I would start by looking into the sound settings for the driver (most sound drivers have their own control software) and setting your driver to 2 channel stereo or headphone as the type and then try the DVD again, see if that changes anything.

If it does, then the channels are simply mapped wrong in the software.

[ragefire]

Thanks D-Bone! I switched over the audio card I bought a couple weeks ago that I got for my mic and it worked great. Stupid built in audio crap. Anywho, it works wonders now.