Very low sound in two rear speakers and good in front?!

[XperienZe]

Hi all!

Really love your work with MediaPortal!
But I have for a long time having this issue with sound in the speakers. I use a cable from my built in soundcard (one channel, stereo) to my DVD-player that has got 3 front, 2 rear and 1 subwoofer. I havn't get any good sound in the rear speakers yet... sometimes i get sound in just the two in the front and sometimes all three in front, but the 2 rear hasnt got any... or it is vey low and bad.

In windows audiosettings i have tried to set the speakersystem to 2 speaker (stereo) and 5.1 (as i own) but with both i get the same result. I not only have this problem with MP, i have the same problem when i play music in for example Media Player.
I know this has worked before with all speakers, i reinstalled Windows today and forgot the settings.

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Another problem is that in some (very few) movies i get a very low sound, i have FFDShow, DScaler, AC3Filter, VobSub installed. In the Media Portal settings i use the DScaler as videocodec and AC3Filter as audiocodec. In the settings of AC3 i have tried both 2.0 (stereo) and 5.1 and also higher the Speech-volume a bit (this improoved it a bit, but not perfect.

BTW, should i use FFDShow for something? It isnt in my list of videocodec, only in audiocodec... and i tried it as an audiocodec and changed the settings in FFDShow to Output>AC3, but no improvements.

I would be very happy to solve both of this problems!

And by the way, in VideoLAN (VLC) the speech-sound works excellent, but not in MP

Thank you all!

[CoolHammer]

do you connect your computer to dvd with spdif?

CoolHammer

[XperienZe]

SPDIF is optical, am i right?
Nope i dont connect it trough SPDIF, i use one audio-cabel (black) to the green output on my motherboard.
This has worked before with exactly the same cable and everything, i hear a low sound "crushing" in the rears.

BTW, i have tried to set the surround on the DVD to on and off, both with same result!

This is a thing that really needs to be solved!
And i have the same problem in XP when playing music!

Please help me out of this!

[Callifo]

SPDIF is digital out, so its either optical or coaxial.

[CoolHammer]

Ok, i assume you are using coaxial spdif out. Please fill out support template (copy from example and fill necessary parts) so we can proceed with this one

CoolHammer

[XperienZe]

Okey, here it comes:

Area: Media Portal / Windows / Skin Original / Plugins
MP Version: 0.1.3.0
Skin: What is it called, the light blue original skin!
Windows Version: Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 and .NET 1.1 and 2.0
CPU Type: Intel P4 1,6 ghz
Memory: 512 mb (2x 256)
Motherboard Chipset: Dell (no special model)
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 2 MX
Video Card Driver: Latest, downloaded yesterday
Video Card Resolution: 800x600
Video Render Type: Don't know?
Video Codec Type & Version: DScaler, FFDShow, VobSub
Audio Codec Type & Version: AC3Filter, FFDShow
TV Card: None
TV Card Type: None
TV Card Driver: None
Optional Log: It is not needed i think?
Optional References: None

Synopsis: The problems did i describe in the first post!

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Hope thats enogh (spelling?

I really dont know what to do, and i want both of the problems solved please!
First of all, which audio/video-codecs should i use and not use? And how should i do the settings of the codecs and MediaPortal?

Thank you all!

[gozzy]

Another problem is that in some (very few) movies i get a very low sound, i have FFDShow, DScaler, AC3Filter, VobSub installed. In the Media Portal settings i use the DScaler as videocodec and AC3Filter as audiocodec. In the settings of AC3 i have tried both 2.0 (stereo) and 5.1 and also higher the Speech-volume a bit (this improoved it a bit, but not perfect.

I had a similar problem with the sound and went to the AC3 codec Config (start>programs>Ac3 Filter). You can adjust the gain settings on the mixer tab to boost the sound.

Hope that helps

[CoolHammer]

I have used dscaler as a audio codec. I haveto set filter so it redirects all dd/dts sounds to spdif.

CoolHammer

[XperienZe]

gozzy, yea thanks i tried that but it went a bit better then, not perfect!

CoolHammer, so what you suggest is to uninstall all of my other codecs and just run DScaler? No FFDShow or AC3Filter?

Where can i find this setting you are talking about, i couldnt find any audiosettings i Dscaler?

Thanks all!

[XperienZe]

I havnt got any luck yet! What should i do?

Thanks!