No speech on a DVD

Posted by: BigH47 on 20 February 2008

I tried to play my son's copy of Transformers and was surprised to hear the background sounds and music but no speech.
I played a Bill Bailey DVD and that was fine.
I'm listening in 2 channel direct from my Pioneer 656 into NAC 82. I had brief look at the DVDP settings but nothing stood out as wrong, but then I don't if would know what wrong was.
Any ideas.
TIA

Howard

Posted on: 20 February 2008 by AV@naim

I suspect the Bill Bailey disc is in DD2.0, meaning the dialogue appears on the left/right (centre phantom) and the Transfomers audio track is outputting 5.1, meaning it has a dialoge track on the centre speaker.

running 2 channel, you wont get centre dialogue from 5.1 unless the 5.1 is downmixed to 2.0.

Is there a two channel track on the transformers disc, have you checked the audio settings on the player?

Posted on: 20 February 2008 by BigH47

There is no audio set up on the menu of the Transformer disc that I could see.I have never experienced this before.
I'm not sure what audio settings I should expect to see.
I'll have another delve later.

Posted on: 21 February 2008 by AV@naim

exactly what is the model number of the player?

Posted on: 21 February 2008 by Mike1380

Sounds like your player has a built-in 5.1 DD/DTS decoder, and is currently decoding the disc to its' 5.1 analogue outputs, instead of downmixing into stereo.

RT@M!

Here's a link to the PDF...
DV-656 Manual

Handy hint....

Page 61 (of 148) of this PDF....

Go into your speakers setting menu... set Front L&R to Large - set all others to OFF.

There may be other things you need to do, but helpful as I may be, I need to get on with my real job, and it should all be contained in the manual.

Hope it works

Mike

Posted on: 21 February 2008 by BigH47

Thanks guys I reckon I've changed something in the set up. I've just got back in so will have a play around.
Model is as mike spotted Pioneer DV-656A.
I Know I cocked something up when I moved everything after the arrival of the flat screen and I fed the video out to component and misread the manual then and got no picture.
I guess I've probably done the same thing to the sound but as yet haven't spotted my mistake.
Thanks mike and AV if I can call you by your 1st name.

Posted on: 21 February 2008 by Vaughn3D

This player has seperate stereo and 5.1 analog outputs, are you sure you have the cables hooked to the stereo analog outputs?

see page 10 of the manual, you should be using #3 on the rear panel, perhaps you are using #4

Posted on: 21 February 2008 by BigH47

I looked in "Initial Setup" and the speakers were set for 5.1 I re-set them to 2 channel and it's OK now. I don't know how I missed that last night.
"alls well..... etc is suppose.

Thanks guys