hi,
i’m playing a dvd with kaffeine, i can listen to the music but the can’t hear the singer (the cure dvd set, trilogy, disintegration, plainsong is the song’s title)
i already went thru various tutorials and multimedia check ups but so far i still have bad sound on my pc 
( MMCHECK - Version 2.41 - Check Your Multimedia in 16 Steps - Bash Script File - Blogs - openSUSE Forums for example)
Any tip/help is appreciated
Thanks 
Is it possible you are hearing only one channel and not two, as is normal with stereo? I only ask because I have had this happen to me when using more than one computer on the same stereo system, not that this is required to have such a problem. I often pull out a small stereo radio, tape player, MP3 player with a headphone jack known to be good and put it in place of my computer and it helps determine who is not working properly, the computer or the stereo speakers. Anyway, it is just a thought.
Thank You,
hi,
in the dvd settings i chose LPCM stereo, if i change this for 5.1 dolby digital surround it does not help.
Using Vlc is not better.
Using smplayer seems better , how do i had actions so that i have the choice after inserting the dvd to open it with smplayer ?
Dvd plays ok in windows.
So to get SMPlayer as an option in KDE, you need to go to Menu / Configure Desktop / Device Actions and add SMPlayer as a DVD player. Just look at one of the others said to play a DVD and make the SMPlayer simular, program name was **smplayer %U, **but I have much better luck with VLC myself. Log in and out so as to have this new option in the Device Notifier when you put in a disc. Can you tell me more about your audio setup? What sound card or sound chipset is in your computer? How do you connect to your speakers and don’t leave out any audio equipment details.
Thank You,
Is this a 5.1 system ?
If so, try setting for 4.1 surround sound.
hi,
no it’s not a 5.1 system , i was just trying another option, just in case.
I’m using headphones, pluging the jack at the back of the pc.
i added smplayer as a device operation when inserting a dvd , i copied “play a dvd with kaffeine” settings, but the command ( smplayer %U).
it does open smplayer but it is closed immediately after. Kaffeine uses a command that i’m gonna try also for smplayer ( smplayer --dvd %25d )
for i need to close my session in order to try a 2d time i’ll add in this sentence if this 2d command test is ok.
my hardware :
> inxi -F
System: Host: linux-121 Kernel: 3.1.10-1.9-desktop i686 (32 bit)
Desktop KDE 4.8.2 Distro: openSUSE 12.1 (i586) VERSION = 12.1 CODENAME = Asparagus
Machine: Mobo: N/A model: P43Twins1600 Bios: American Megatrends version: P1.80 date: 09/03/2008
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2003.00 MHz 2: 2003.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: ATI RV770 [Radeon HD 4850] X.Org: 1.10.4 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series GLX Version: 3.3.11566 - CPC
Audio: Card-1: ATI RV770 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4850/4870] driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Card-2: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r816
i turned off the ati audio device in pavucontrol already
2d command in smplayer comes wrong too :
/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv -ao pulse -nokeepaspect -framedrop -nodr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 146800733 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/fabrice/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -cache 1000 -osdlevel 0 -prefer-ipv4 -vf-add pp -autoq 6 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 --dvd
Unknown option on the command line: --dvd
Error parsing option on the command line: --dvd
MPlayer dev-SVN-r34853-4.6-openSUSE Linux 12.1 (i586)-Packman (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
ID_EXIT=NONE
then using mplayer gives me some errors : mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /media/THE_CURE_DISC1/VIDEO_TS/ MPlayer dev-SVN-r3 - Pastebin.com
I assume then you have pulse audio selected as the output mode in your multimedia applications.
That being the case, IMHO the next place to tune is the configuration in the configuration tab of pavucontrol.
in smplayer the audio output driver is pulse, but in kaffeine and vlc i’m not sure where to set this up.
I don’t use kaffeine, but my guess is it will use what ever default setting is applied in KDE. I think for vlc to use pulse, one needs “vlc-aout-pulse” installed.