DVP5992 Philips sound issue

[udidwht]

I've got a Philips DV5992 player and having an issue regarding sound playback on some movies I downloaded onto an 8GB flash stick. I have Inception (AVI) and it works great. But I also have 'A Christmas Carol' and all three Jurassic Park movies all in the same format (AVI) as Inception. Problem is they play but without audio. I've confirmed they play fine on my PC without issue/s. Any ideas?

[lowellriggsiam]

Does the dvd player tell you that it can't find the audio, or the codec? If it doesn't you could either try recoding the audio using virtualdub. There were a few times I had to do that. There have also been a couple of times it quit playing sound for some reason and I had to go into the dvd players settings and decrease the voulme by one.

[jagabo]

Use MediaInfo or GSpot to check the audio codecs. Make sure they use codecs the 5992 supports. For Philips players needs to be AC3, MP3, or MP2, maybe uncompressed PCM. There typically are bitrate restrictions too. Many players won't play MP3 at 64 kbps or less. I'm pretty sure it won't play DTS audio.

[udidwht]

Ok, here's what I got according to MediaInfo. I left off the Video details since I'm not having video problems.

1. Jurassic Park
Audio - 112 kbps 48.0khz, 2channels, MPEG audio (MP3) (Version 1) (layer 3)

2. Jurassic Park II
Audio - Audio - 112 kbps 48.0khz, 2channels, MPEG audio (MP3) (Version 1) (layer 3)

3. Jurassic Park III
Audio - Audio - 112 kbps 48.0khz, 2channels, MPEG audio (MP3) (Version 1) (layer 3)

[johns0]

udidwht-I'll reopen the thread,best to say i copied the movies to the usb next time.

[udidwht]

Thanks John.

[jagabo]

I'm pretty sure the 5992 should be able to play 48 KHz, stereo, 112 kbps MP3 audio (although that's going to sound pretty crappy). I'll check my 5990 to be sure.

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Well, I didn't have any 112 kbps files but 96 kbps files with the same properties played fine. Both CBR and VBR MP3.

Make sure the audio setup is set to output to the port you're using -- analog, HDMI, optical, etc.
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[udidwht]

I'm pretty sure the 5992 should be able to play 48 KHz, stereo, 112 kbps MP3 audio (although that's going to sound pretty crappy). I'll check my 5990 to be sure.

It will play off the flash stick but without audio. I've confirmed that much. I to was under the impression it should play MP3. Plays fine from my desktop.

[jagabo]

Added to my last post.

[lowellriggsiam]

I am just going to reiterate me original thoughts. Do you receive an error on you tv such as "no audio" or "audio codec not found"?

[udidwht]

Well I don't know how to explain this but it's working . I tried again (3rd attempt) and I now have sound. Weird...

[jagabo]

My 5990 does flash an error message for a few seconds when it finds an unsupported codec. I'm running a mod firmware though. So I can't say for sure whether the factory firmware does the same (it probably does).