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VLC and Win Media Player - Only background sound

  • 05-02-2019 5:51pm
    #1
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭


    Hey lads and lasses!

    Hoping for a bit of help on this one. Basically, when trying to play a movie/tv show on my PC via VLC or Windows Media Player (or the Films & TV app) I only get the background sound, music etc, but no actual content from the spoken words. Netflix, YouTube etc all work fine.

    Now, what's weird about the whole thing is that say an episode of Vikings will play just fine with perfect audio, but Parks and Recreations has the above problem.

    Also, casting it on to the TV via Chromecast results in the normal audio.

    I've gone through the audio settings and it's correctly set to Realtek Audio as normal.

    I would have posted this in the Windows Forum, but I figure this would actually be a better place. For the record, I have googled this same issue and I can't find any fixes for it.


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  • #2
    smuggler.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    I believe this would be you issue, see more in https://forum.videolan.org/
    Usually, those symptoms mean the sound card is configured to output surround even though only stereo speakers are present.
    VLC has a nasty habit of defaulting to 5.1 audio mode, and you're probably playing on a stereo output device. This means the audio you're hearing are probably the back channels, which often contain no dialogue but various other parts of the soundtrack. Switch the audio device to stereo.
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  • #3
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    smuggler.ie wrote: »
    I believe this would be you issue, see more in https://forum.videolan.org/

    Actually checked that, as well as the Realtek settings and it's correctly set.

    BUT. As a weird and total bloody mystery, I went to watch an episode earlier and the sound worked straight away.


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