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no audio when playing video

Postby LadyTaz64 » 16 Apr 2018 06:30

I have the VLC 3.0.1
If I play a video that has aac, it plays fine, but whan I play a video, (such as Star Wars The Last Jedi) that has AC3 audio, there is background sound but no voices.
It plays fine on my Cyberlink Power DVD. Can anyone tell me what is wrong? And how can I fix it?
I would appreciate any help.
Thank you

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Re: no audio when playing video

Postby jayR » 16 Apr 2018 09:44

I think your output setting is surround.
From "Tools" - "Preferences", click "All'.
Select "Audio" - "Output modules" - "DirectX".
Select "Speaker configuration" to "Stereo" or to your audio system.

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Re: no audio when playing video

Postby LadyTaz64 » 16 Apr 2018 19:11

I'm sorry, but that did nothing.
Anything else?

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Re: no audio when playing video

Postby jayR » 17 Apr 2018 00:00

Is your audio output device is "DirectX"? Check if not, choose "DirectX" as follows;
Select "Tools" - "Preferences".
Click "Audio" button at the top.
Select "Output module" as "DirectX audio output".
Press the "Save" button.

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Re: no audio when playing video

Postby jayR » 17 Apr 2018 00:23

PS:
Make sure to press the "Save" button after you change preferences. If you have done with my original reply, please do so. Your problem is about surround track to stereo conversion issue.

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Re: no audio when playing video

Postby user0000 » 23 Apr 2018 19:23

Thank you jayR it works!

Previous AC3 files were working last year because my version was 2.2.1 with default settings (I have stereo system with S/PDIF (toslink) but with 3.0 release and higher even nightly daily 3.0/4.0 builds it didn't work with default settings


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