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njscorpio
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11. January 2010 @ 10:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi, I recently reinstalled windows xp on a Dell B110. I added a DVD drive, it's 2.53Ghz w/ 2GB of RAM, so it should play back DVDs fine. Also I threw in an old Radeon 9200 video card.

I installed the needed drivers for the integrated hardware from Dell's site, and installed PowerDVD 6.

When I try to play either a DVD, or VOB files I had on an external drive, both have the same garbled audio. This is in PowerDVD and Windows Media player.

Xvid files are fine, and play great through either. I've tried various AC3 codecs, nothing I am trying is helping.

Any suggestions?
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11. January 2010 @ 15:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you play the DVD either on another computer or a standalone player
connected to the TV, is the sound OK ?
njscorpio
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11. January 2010 @ 15:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yep, it's every DVD I try in my computer, as well as playing back VOB files I ripped using a different computer. It's the file type, it seems.


Also, the Xvid files that play back great, those have AC3 audio. So I suspect it's some problem I'm having playing back MPEG2 (DVD) video files. It's this weird laggy kind of garbled stutter in the audio, but that may be because the video is lagging in decoding.

I've found one or two other posts onilne about this, but years later nobody posted an answer. I'm scared! O_O
bigee1212
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11. January 2010 @ 15:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey!

I'm having what seems to be the same exact problem. This just started happening to me recently in .avi files with AC3 audio. I installed AC3Filter and that cured that problem, but then the problem happens when i play dvd files in windows media player!! this is what it sounds like:

http://www.easy-share.com/1908975904/Audio Static.mp3

also running 64 bit windows 7. tried k lite codec pack, didnt work
njscorpio
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11. January 2010 @ 17:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I can't check out that audio clip just yet, but here is an update...

The distortion is like a very fine, kinda like everything is underwater.

So I ripped a DVD clip (using DVD Shrink, which had the playback problem in the preview window).

The ripped VOB clip had the problem again during playback, but when I encoded it into an Xvid with AC3 audio it plays fine! So it must be the MPEG2 playback. Ugh.
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11. January 2010 @ 23:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What mpeg-2 drivers do you have installed?
Vista Home Premium and Ultimate included an encoder,
other version did not. XP did not, (not sure about Win 7)

Powerdvd which you mentioned, includes it's own set of filters.

If you play an mpeg-2 from the harddrive is it also bad?
bigee1212
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12. January 2010 @ 00:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In my home theater pc system, I have a creative soundblaster audigy 4 pro and an ati 4670 (HDMI out)

when i make the playback device SPDIF (which is my optical cable going to my AVR), i notice that the sound comes out like the file ive attached above... this is when playing in WMP. keeping this as the playback device and playing it in either vlc or gom or TMT3, everything plays fine. However, the problem still remains in WMP..


When i switch to HDMI out as the sound playback device, everything works including the same files in WMP. . .

i need optical for my playback device b/c of a mixer i have attached to a seperate input.
i also need to use WMP b/c of Windows media center (windows 7 ultimate)


im at a loss. i figure... its the decoder thats packaged with the creative driver, but i cant get around it. idk anyhelp would be appreciated.
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12. January 2010 @ 00:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
To me it sounds related to the hardware or hardware drivers.
I've exhausted my idea's, perhaps somebody else will chime in.
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