5.1 surround support for mkv. files

[milesady]

I have set my mkv. blu-rays up in game-ex but have noticed that when the play they are not in 5.1 surround. is there any support fot this on the game-ex player if not can someone tell me how to set up vlc as an external player please thanks

[T. Goodchild]

I have set my mkv. blu-rays up in game-ex but have noticed that when the play they are not in 5.1 surround. is there any support fot this on the game-ex player if not can someone tell me how to set up vlc as an external player please thanks

If you use ffdshow go to audio options then look for output. If you have a receiver with a coax or optical output, output the dolby digital or dts streams and they should come up. It outputs the digital stream if your mkv is encoded with one then switches back to the wave out of windows. I don't use vlc but these are for wmp and kmplayer just switch the syntax or paths to vlc.

"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" "" /fullscreen

"C:\Program Files\The KMPlayer\kmplayer.exe" "" /fullscreen

[milesady]

Thanks for the command line unfortunately the stuff at the start made no sense to me, but i have vlc loading now using this command line "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "" /fullscreen but that command does'nt seem to be quite right to get it to go full screen, im so close now.

[T. Goodchild]

Thanks for the command line unfortunately the stuff at the start made no sense to me, but i have vlc loading now using this command line "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "" /fullscreen but that command does'nt seem to be quite right to get it to go full screen, im so close now.

Try this:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "" --fullscreen

or

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "" -f

This is the site for more cmd switches:

http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html

[milesady]

oh my god i thought that was going to be it, it's playing it in fullscreen but now i can't see it just get a black screen with a little pop up from my quick bar telling my what file is playing any more ideas

[T. Goodchild]

oh my god i thought that was going to be it, it's playing it in fullscreen but now i can't see it just get a black screen with a little pop up from my quick bar telling my what file is playing any more ideas

Try this I installed .8.6 myself. Just go to prefernces>video> output enable fullscreen video output. and for game ex use

""C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" """

it worked for me.

[milesady]

waa hey we got there thank you soooo much really appreciate it

[T. Goodchild]

Forgot to add for the digital audio output go to audio options and allow s/pdif when available, and it should work.

[milesady]

yeah it's ok the 5.1 is coming out now nice and clear cheers again