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improper DVD sound

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nate39

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Here's a new problem for me. I went to play a movie last night and everything was fine with the previews, etc. until the movie actually started. Then the sound for the music and special effects were OK but all voice tracks were very quiet and sounded like they were in a tin can if you could hear them at all.

I built this system earlier in the year and this is probably the first time I have played a movie on it, but all other applications like tv, cd audio, internet are fine. This happened with both of my DVD players and both media center and media player. I have gone into the realtek audio properties and changed anything I could but nothing has helped. I have drivers from probably this summer, so they aren't too old. This the first time in a long time I have used onboard sound instead of a card but I know this shouldn't happen.

Does anyone have any idea what I need to do? Thanks
 
You didn't say, but I'm guessing you're using a 5.1 system, correct?

 
You may be missing sound from the centre channel or the centre is routed to the sub and vise versa.
 
Actually, my speakers are rather old. They are 4.1 but I have them set on 5.1. I didn't think to change that since I have never had this problem before. I will have to get another movie and see if changing it to quadrophonic helps. Thanks
 
When you're set up for 4.1 but you're telling your software you're running 5.1, you're losing the center channel -- which is primarily where all dialog on most any 5.1 mix is going to lie. The limited dialog you're hearing in your front left/front right is most likely verb.

Just change your system in the Windows preferences and your software (if applicable) to 4.1. This'll give you a FL/C/FR downmix to your FL/FR. Some software will let you set up submixes yourself if you should want to.
 
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