Klonor
30-09-2007, 03:31
My DVD collection, though nowhere near as impressive as some of my friends, is not exactly something to laugh at, I've got DVD's which bridge pretty much every genre and production style, and quite often I'll pick something off the rack to pop into my laptop to watch as I drift off to sleep (My TV and real DVD player are in the room next to my bed). Now, for a long time that went perfectly well, my screen's quite big (Relatively big I mean, compared to my TV it's tiny, but it's good for a laptop) and I've got speakers that put my big speakers to shame (They're actually really old and crappy, with loose wires like you would not believe, but if you manage to connect everything and plug it in the sound is amazing. In all seriousness, they're each about the size of my clock radio, but if you put them on full volume you will literally need to cover your ears). Unfortunately, last week (Or two weeks ago, I'm not exactly sure), it all just died.
When I put in a DVD and hit play it seems to be working well, I hear dramatic music as the titles appear and the footsteps come out loud and clear, but the problem is whenever anybody tries to speak: Though all the other audio is just peachy, voices are almost inaudible. When I go up to eleven I can manage hear the conversations, but at this level everything else sounds like I'm at the front row of some God-awful concert, my head practically flying backwards at the audio force whenever somebody claps loudly or drops a book (Heaven forbid they do something really loud, like shoot a gun).
Now, that's odd, but that's not the truly puzzling bit. Like I said, these speakers have loose wires, and this laptop's beginning to get old (Three years now) so I could easily imagine that there's a loose connection or a problem with the speaker, one of the channels getting lost or something like that, but the thing is that it's not all voices that die like that, only those on the default audio track. If I switch over to, say, the French dub it works fine, same with the Spanish dub, and if I go to the directors commentary it works just fine, and on that one the background audio (The normal audio that wasn't working before) works, too. Now, I might think that maybe for some reason my laptop stopped liking English (Odder things have happened), but that's not it, since I've got a few Asian DVD's, too, and the same thing happens with them! The default vocal track (Which happens to be Chinese) is just a whisper, and this time if I switch over to the English dub it works just fine.
So, I've pretty much determined that it's the default audio track on whatever DVD I'm watching that doesn't work, but that doesn't help me with solving the problem. I've got no clue how to fix this, since I can't tell what the problem actually is, all other audio works fine, these DVD's work fine, everything else on the laptop is tip-top (Well, not quite tip-top, but good enough), and I'm just confused. Has anybody else epxerienced something like this?
When I put in a DVD and hit play it seems to be working well, I hear dramatic music as the titles appear and the footsteps come out loud and clear, but the problem is whenever anybody tries to speak: Though all the other audio is just peachy, voices are almost inaudible. When I go up to eleven I can manage hear the conversations, but at this level everything else sounds like I'm at the front row of some God-awful concert, my head practically flying backwards at the audio force whenever somebody claps loudly or drops a book (Heaven forbid they do something really loud, like shoot a gun).
Now, that's odd, but that's not the truly puzzling bit. Like I said, these speakers have loose wires, and this laptop's beginning to get old (Three years now) so I could easily imagine that there's a loose connection or a problem with the speaker, one of the channels getting lost or something like that, but the thing is that it's not all voices that die like that, only those on the default audio track. If I switch over to, say, the French dub it works fine, same with the Spanish dub, and if I go to the directors commentary it works just fine, and on that one the background audio (The normal audio that wasn't working before) works, too. Now, I might think that maybe for some reason my laptop stopped liking English (Odder things have happened), but that's not it, since I've got a few Asian DVD's, too, and the same thing happens with them! The default vocal track (Which happens to be Chinese) is just a whisper, and this time if I switch over to the English dub it works just fine.
So, I've pretty much determined that it's the default audio track on whatever DVD I'm watching that doesn't work, but that doesn't help me with solving the problem. I've got no clue how to fix this, since I can't tell what the problem actually is, all other audio works fine, these DVD's work fine, everything else on the laptop is tip-top (Well, not quite tip-top, but good enough), and I'm just confused. Has anybody else epxerienced something like this?