[MPlayer-users] missing sound channels

[Ivo]

On Saturday 21 April 2007 14:26, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 05:08:32AM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >  Toward the top it refers to "audio streams" and "audio channels".
> >  I only hear the stereo music portions.  I hear no dialog, or the other
> >  background noises that typically exist in a film.
>
> Make sure you speakers, esp. the ground pin is properly connected,
> otherwise you'll only hear the left-right difference, anything mono
> would be missing.

Yeah, we used to use that as a trick at school back in the eighties to get 
an el-cheapo karaoke machine. It didn't work with every song, but a lot of 
them had stereo instruments and pretty much mono vocals.

--Ivo