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Apr. 28th, 2005 02:21 pmOkay video people, any idea what's up with this?
I went to play Noir episode 12 (an OGM file) and it starts up with the volume LOUD, scratchy, and tinny. It sounded like really bad "tape hiss" which is interesting since this came from a digital source. At first I thought I had hit the wrong button last night and had turned up the volume rather than muting my PC, but turning down the volume using the convenient keyboard button did nothing. Reducing the volume on the speaker was the next step.
So I stop the video and tried it again, still very loud, still hissy and scratchy. Maybe it's a bad file I think, so I try one I've already watched. That one sounds horrible too (the "background noise" is so loud that you can't really hear the dialog, since this is dubbed and not subbed this is bad). Okay, maybe I've blown the speakers with that initial burst (I hope not, these are nice speakers), so I play an MP3. No sound at all. Turn up system volume... ah, speakers are fine.
Listen to song and ponder stuff.
Maybe I can play this with some other program.... nope, I've got nothing that will handle an OGM other than VLC. Consider getting codecs for Windows Media Player... see everyone saying get VLC instead. Am not surprised.
Poke around the gazillion and one options with VLC. Resort to returning to defaults in the off chance that I somehow changed something with an errant key stroke. Try video again, still scaring the cats with the audio. *hmph*
This is going to turn into one of those "reboot and all will be fixed" things isn't it?
(So much for video with late lunch.)
Update: Rebooting did not magically fix things. Removing and reinstalling VLC did not magically fix things. I have noticed that the first system sound after an attempt to use VLC is also mangled but then everything goes back to normal. Anyone have any ideas or should I get a chicken to wave over the PC?
I went to play Noir episode 12 (an OGM file) and it starts up with the volume LOUD, scratchy, and tinny. It sounded like really bad "tape hiss" which is interesting since this came from a digital source. At first I thought I had hit the wrong button last night and had turned up the volume rather than muting my PC, but turning down the volume using the convenient keyboard button did nothing. Reducing the volume on the speaker was the next step.
So I stop the video and tried it again, still very loud, still hissy and scratchy. Maybe it's a bad file I think, so I try one I've already watched. That one sounds horrible too (the "background noise" is so loud that you can't really hear the dialog, since this is dubbed and not subbed this is bad). Okay, maybe I've blown the speakers with that initial burst (I hope not, these are nice speakers), so I play an MP3. No sound at all. Turn up system volume... ah, speakers are fine.
Listen to song and ponder stuff.
Maybe I can play this with some other program.... nope, I've got nothing that will handle an OGM other than VLC. Consider getting codecs for Windows Media Player... see everyone saying get VLC instead. Am not surprised.
Poke around the gazillion and one options with VLC. Resort to returning to defaults in the off chance that I somehow changed something with an errant key stroke. Try video again, still scaring the cats with the audio. *hmph*
This is going to turn into one of those "reboot and all will be fixed" things isn't it?
(So much for video with late lunch.)
Update: Rebooting did not magically fix things. Removing and reinstalling VLC did not magically fix things. I have noticed that the first system sound after an attempt to use VLC is also mangled but then everything goes back to normal. Anyone have any ideas or should I get a chicken to wave over the PC?
