Standalone won't play one of the audio tracks

[Michelle]

After creating my first backup, I was curious if it would play in my sister's six year old standalone. I was quite surprised that it did. The movie has 3 audio tracks, two English and one Chinese. Her player plays the two English tracks but the Chinese track is silent. I'm wondering if anyone can explain this. All three tracks play fine in my player.

[MackemX]

what format are the 3 audio tracks?

maybe the Chinese track is a different format that your sister's player can't play

[Michelle]

The English tracks are AC3 2 channel and the Chinese track is AC3 6 channel. I know that her system is capable of playing DD 5.1.

[MackemX]

check her audio settings and does she have the 5.1 speaker setup?

you may have to select the downmix option in the standalone's audio menu if she hasn't got the 5.1 speaker setup

if you playback a 5.1 soundtrack through the TV and it isn't downmixing into stereo then you won't hear anything

[Michelle]

She has a 5 speaker setup without a subwoofer. She has a lot of DVDs and they all play fine.

[MackemX]

whats the exact details of the soundtrack?

can you copy the info from the IFO

it ain't a DTS track is it?

[Michelle]

It isn't DTS. How do I copy the info from the IFO?

[Michelle]

I found the info in Ifoedit but I can't figure out how to copy it. This is the first time I've used it.

[MackemX]

open up the IFO for the movie and make sure the path to the IFO is highlighted in the top window of IFOEdit

then click the copy To Clipboard (in the middle at the bottom) and this copies all the info from the bottom window onto your clipboard so you can paste it in here. You may want to delete part of it as it's quite a lot of info and I'm only interested in the first part before the PGC references



I'm running out of suggestions though. As it isn't DTS then are you sure other Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks play on hers and that the audio menu is setup right?

this is the text I get when copying to clipboard

VTS overview:

Menu attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x576 (PAL) (PAL 625/50) (16:9) (pan-scan)
Audio 1: Not Specified (Dolby AC-3) 2ch 48Kbps DRC
SubPicture 1: Not Specified (2-bit rle )

Title Set (Movie) attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x576 (PAL) (PAL 625/50) (16:9) (letterboxed)
Audio 1: English (Dolby AC-3) 6ch 48Kbps DRC (ID: 0x80)
Audio 2: English (DTS ) 6ch 48Kbps DRC (ID: 0x89)
Audio 3: English (Dolby AC-3) 2ch 48Kbps DRC director's comments (ID: 0x82)
SubPicture 1: English (2-bit rle ) (ID: 0x20)
SubPicture 2: English (2-bit rle ) (ID: 0x21)
SubPicture 3: English (2-bit rle ) (ID: 0x22)

[Michelle]

VTS overview:

Menu attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x480 (NTSC) (NTSC 525/60) (16:9) (letterboxed)

Title Set (Movie) attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x480 (NTSC) (NTSC 525/60) (16:9) (letterboxed)
Audio 1: Chinese (Dolby AC-3) 6ch 48Kbps DRC (ID: 0x80)
Audio 2: English (Dolby AC-3) 2ch 48Kbps DRC (ID: 0x81)
Audio 3: English (Dolby AC-3) 2ch 48Kbps DRC (ID: 0x84)
SubPicture 1: English (2-bit rle ) (ID: 0x20)

I'm quite sure her system can play DD 5.1. This isn't important, but it's been in the back of my mind and I'm curious about what is going on in this situation. She lives 700 miles away so I won't be near her system again for a while.

[MackemX]

that looks like a normal Dolby Digital 5.1 stream so I guess it will be something in her audio setup that needs changing if she does have a 5.1 capable system

sorry I can't solve the puzzle, maybe someone else can but I'm all out of ideas

were 5.1 DVD players around 6 years ago?