<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Happy Holidays…</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I started to rip some DVD’s.</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">When I play them back, the audio seems low.</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Any thoughts on whether this is normal. I am using the
on board sound card and a cheap set of speakers.</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Tom</span></font></b></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Tom,</div><div> </div><div> Your sound card is probably decoding the 5.1 audio and you're only hearing the Left and Right channels of the 5.1 audio.</div>
<div><br></div><div> There's a way to configure ALSA to down-mix 5.1 to Sterio - unfortunately I haven't done that myself, so you'll have to google or search the archives to see what you can turn up as I'm not an ALSA expert... I 'cheated' and bought a cheap 2-channel USB sound card for the system I had that issue with... </div>
<div><br></div><div>J-e-f-f-A </div></div>