[Fred Robinson]

I was right.

So – reading up on the PS3 settings, whilst the cinema had set everything up correctly in the ‘Audio Output Settings’ menus correctly, they (and I) did not realise there are more Audio settings under the ‘Video Settings’ menu. (Not really surprising though because it’s a silly place to have them).

So anyway, under ‘Video Settings’ There is ‘BD Audio Output Format (Optical Digital)’. This should have been set to ‘Bitstream (Direct)’ but was, instead, set to a PCM setting. This meant that the PS3 was doing the decoding job, but because optical digital can only send 2 decoded channels that’s why all we got was Stereo.

Solved.

Hope this helps someone else one day.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Indeed. I’d thought of the ‘taking my blu ray player’ back-up plan.

Should I admit on a SONY forum that I don’t have a PS3? Or worse; that I have an XBOX! 😀

The more research I’ve done, the less I think it’s anything to do with my disk or the codec etc. Especially as I’ve found that the PS3 has the chips that arrange their bytes the Motorola way!

I’ve read up on the various settings of the PS3 and I think I know what the problem might be. I’ll report back if I’m right, or, when the answer gets determined.

Thanks for the firmware idea – it may still prove to be the right answer.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Oh, by the way – forgot to mention… …at the cinema they connect the PS3’s audio using an optical cable, but this ought to be irrelevant. (It’s not through the HDMI though – in case that’s significant).

Another suspect I though of might be the LFE channel’s cross-over frequency. I think I remember reading somewhere that some decoders (and maybe players) were fussy about this. But in any case, I left that at it’s default value in vegas when rendering the AC3 file.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Ok, I eventually solved this one.

It’s a really silly thing, as usual. Until you bring up the full-sized surround panner, you can’t see if some speakers are deactivated or not. Something I will not forget again!!

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Thanks John. I will. And I’ll report back.

[Fred Robinson]

I’m using ‘Trebuchet MS’ Bold, 18.

Yes, and also a semi-transparent black.

Very clear and easy to read.

And regarding the Czech thing showing up as ‘1703’, maybe it’s my (dare I say it) SONY Blu ray player that has the issue, and not DVDA or, indeed me!

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Thanks Jeff.

I’m pretty sure there’s no solution to this (for auto-width) in DVDA too.

It’s such a basic thing in other software, e.g. PowerPoint, to have a text box auto-size. Oh well.

Grrrrr.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Nobody got any thoughts on this then?

[Fred Robinson]

Yes, I selected it from the pull-down menu in DVDA. The code was ‘cs’.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

I like your thinking.

So – I tried it…

…it half worked. But instead of all the boxes being different sizes depending on the length of the text, they all became the width of the one I altered. Consequently, long sentences cover 8 or 9 rows. lol.

I guess I’m gonna have to go through all 440 boxes manually.

Maybe this could be a feature to add to 9f or 10? PLEASE!!!

Thanks anyway Jeff. 🙁

Fred