I've got an annoying problem with the audio playback from .MKV video files concerning the speech or voices of actors/characters only. I use VLC to play these video files and music and background noises/sound effects etc. play fine, but no voices can be heard! It seems to be a problem with the channels of the surround sound, like the voices track has been disabled or quietened. The only thing I can think that has changed is the setup or route to my speakers. I have have an Apple MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) connected to a T.C. Electronic Desktop Konnekt 6 Audio Interface/External Sound Card, which goes to my SONY5.1 Surround sound DVD Player. Anyone have any experience of this problem? I've tried looking through everything, codecs, VLC versions, my audio interfaces's set up. Please help!
I had a similar problem with some backed up DVD files, For me the problem was resolved when I used DVD Shrink To Back up but instaed of backing up straight away I re-Authored the DVD And Removed the Soundtracks I didnt Want,
It seems to me that the VLC plyer is simply picking the first available audio channel so you got to make sure the one you want is the first one. Of course this may not fix yours but It Maybe worth a look.
Also just a note I also have a Sony DVD player with 5.1 and its the fussiest player i ever got.
Thanks for the advice, still not had any luck sorting it out. Any ideas on how to pick audio channels in VLC? My SonyDVD Player has always been pretty good to me I thought.. What is fussy about yours? Something to do with the speaker set up, or just carrying out general operations of DVD playback on it?
