Xlogic XLD-901 and Macrovision/Audio problems

[the_harper]

When I originally got my Xlogic player a year ago, I found the means to switch off the macrovision through this site. This made the video perfect, and the player has worked reliably on every medium I've thrown at it until recently.

Recently, the player has been behaving oddly with audio - particularly from DVDs. Sometimes the left channel drops out, sometimes the right channel. The audio in the problem channel may come through in bursts. This is only the audio from the RCA stereo outputs. The audio from the headphone output is fine. If I play a stereo VCD I made myself - which has no Macrovision- the audio is fine.

I just tried switching Macrovision back on. It fixed the audio, but now the video varies wildly in brightness and colour saturation.

Does anyone have any ideas for resolving the problem (other than buying another player)? It's frustrating to be able to have perfect audio or perfect video but not both at the same time.

Rob

[the_harper]

I used a cleaning CD in the player and while it wouldn't play properly, it appears to have improved things slightly. Some DVDs now play with proper audio.

I found out that the variations in the brightness and colour with macrovision enabled were due to feeding the signal through a VCR; it's exactly what macrovision is supposed to do - make the signal worthless to record.

Anyone with more ideas on resolving the problems in my original post still appreciated.

Rob

[the_harper]

FWIW it looks like the problems with sound on the DVD player were all due to a faulty amplifier feeding a voltage back into the line level outputs of the DVD player. Touch wood the DVD player is behaving now with a different amp.

Rob