Re: [xine-user] DVD playback missing voice channel

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Amadeus Foudray wrote:
> Ok, tracked down at least what's going on, even if I don't know how to 
> fix it yet.  Pulled out an old THX test disc, and found that all 
> channels other than the front two, and the LFE (sub) channel don't seem 
> to have any output.  This is supposed to be passthrough, so why are 
> channels getting dropped?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions
> 
> Amadeus Foudray wrote:
> 
>> When playing certain DVDs (any that have multiple languages), I'm only 
>> getting the background sound track, not the voices.  Video is fine as 
>> well.  I'm doing a passthrough connection to spdif, and the signal 
>> seems to be passing correctly, my decoder sees a clean DD5.1 or DTS 
>> signal.  I've tried 2 different sound cards (VIA82xx, ICE1724), 
>> upgraded to libxine1_1-RC5-1, reset everything to defaults, and no 
>> luck at all.
>>
>> Worst part about it is that it used to work.  I think Debian upgraded 
>> something it shouldn't have, but so far I haven't been able to track 
>> down what it might be.
>>
>> libdvdcss2 1.2.8-0.0
>> libdvdread3 0.9.4-5
>> libxine1 1-rc5-1 (also tried 1-rc3-1)
>> xine-ui 0.99.1-1
>>

Have you set "speaker-arrangement" in the xine config to "passthru" or 
have you set it to "Surround 5.1" ?

You should not have "Surround 5.1", you should just have "passthru" enabled.