Re: can't play voice recordings under ubuntu

Silvio Levy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Stan

The earphones - actually earbuds - are vanilla are Bose and no
equalizer or noise cancellation is mentioned. Also it happens with
both pairs of earbuds of this brand, as well as a vanilla pair.

But you're right - it must not be an mplayer problem; I just tried VLC
with the same results.

Still if you have any suggestions how I can debug it I'd be very
thankful.  I'm mystified.

Silvio  




On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 03:11:48 -0700
Silvio Levy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been using mplayer for 10+ years and suddenly I started having a
> problem: when listening through earphones, any voice track will be
> muted down to almost zero. 

Have you tried with another sound player, say audacious or xmms2?  Have
you tried different earphones?

> I can listen to a music recording just fine.  When playing a movie
> I hear music but once dialogue comes on, the volume drops by 60dB or
> more, or else it's distorted by constant short interruptions. 
> Voice-only recordings are unplayable.
> 
> This is only on earphones; with builtin-speakers or external
> speakers reproduction is normal.

This sounds like you have a notch filter operating.  Since sound is
fine on speakers it is almost certainly *not* mplayer.  Do you have an
equalizer in the earphones?  Is it set to knock out frequencies around
200 - 300 hz?  Are the earphones noise cancelling?  Could the noise
cancellation be functioning incorrectly?
_______________________________________________
MPlayer-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
_______________________________________________
MPlayer-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.