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Surround Sound DVD + Stereo Laptop = ?
YggiDee
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I rather recently picked up some dual language DVDs and find myself in a bit of a pickle- the English audio comes in Surround sound but not Stereo. My laptop does not have surround sound, nor does anything else I own. When I watch the DVDs I can hear the left and right channels very clearly but the other ones come in very faintly, if at all. Is there a program or a ...process or something that can covert these to stereo sound? "Flatten" the audio or something?
The only other thing I have to play DVDs is a PS2, which creates problems of its own.
The only other thing I have to play DVDs is a PS2, which creates problems of its own.
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You in Windows?
I know that some players, like VLC or Media Player Classic HC, have options in the settings to downmix 5.1 audio to stereo. I have no idea if whatever player you're using can do the same...some can, some can't.
In MPC-HC, you want to go to to:
View->Options->Internal Filters->AC3
Double-click for properties, then choose the "Decode to Speakers" button and "Stereo" for the drop-down. You can set the DTS from the same dialog.
I forgot that it wasn't exactly in an intuitive place.
I think you can do it somewhere else too (for the output in general), but I'll be damned if I remember where. That dialog should do you, though.
For some arcane reason the AC3 filter had been disabled, and re-enabling fixed the audio.
This had been bugging me for weeks.
Merci again!