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I use to have the chattering/static noise whenever playing AC-3 and surround sound encoded files in Quicktime on my laptop. It took me too much time mucking around to figure out what I had done wrong!

To remove the static noise for surround sound audio and video I used both:
defaults write com.cod3r.a52codec attemptPassthrough 0
and
sudo defaults write com.cod3r.a52codec attemptPassthrough 0

The reason I failed in the first place was because I prepended "sudo" to my commands, when in reality "sudo defaults *" is different to "defaults *".
I'm too use to needing it on nix systems obviously.

In todays world every thing of our lives revolves around this thing called computer ....there will be a day soon when even the human body can be controlled with computers.
COmputers will make einstiens out of ordinary people....I can remember even 6 years ago they were not so much part of everyday life as they aee now...Well it is irreversible now and has its pros and cons

@ Larry

What version of VLC are you running on your Macbook? Like you, I've got the latest Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard and plenty of functional .mkv files, but I can't find the 5.1 option in Audio options.

I am not sure....I agree with the Author I think you need more then just a smart phone.

Errr, I wish I would have seen this before we just launched our new WP site. What did you mean when you said community? I know WP has the buddy press plug-in but I'm still looking for a better community solution.

could some give me an instructional on how to do this? im having trouble understanding what to do...

Well thanks i was looking for this how to get surround out of it :)

And that, dear sir, is why we get Macs :) even just the iMac calendar will do for that kind of work, and fully functioning even with all my tasks, and I run four businesses!

This actually worked for me, so thanks a lot for the info :)

Love it! Yeah, it was a clumsy set up at best. I was like screw this, I'm going to plug a jar proof cd player into my cigarette lighter. Oh, but wait, now cars dont even have those anymore... well, actually not all... but what a hunk o junk idea. Glad things have smoothed out tho.

Love your post, and pix!! Thanks, new subber here.

Science states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be converted from one form to another. Time and money seems to hold true to that same maxim.

I pot ready in my Bmer with harmon kardon speakers, It sure dosen't get any better than that :)

I am facing some difficulties about the maximum could some one please explain the procedure?

Hello Francois

Thanks for your support on the matter

i bougth an external sound card for my macbook pro (SB XFi 5.1) and i got the 5.1 audio working with movies with AC3 but then .. is there a way to get my stereo music go through all my speakers... mp3 is stereo... so is it possible to tweak to play the 2 channels on left and right accordingly...????

Thank you very much

I am an consultant and I only have time to sell, however I always get asked if I can give advice for free. I try to relate giving away time like giving away chocolate it somtimes works.

my Macbook Pro will not switch off the optical and use the internal speekers no matter what i do - could there be a way to set things back to using internal speekers - using the sound control pan or audio midi setup dont let me change the output to anything but digital,- will switch to headphones but never to internal speakers HELP

Very nice examples, every beginner website owner asking for this code.

Take a look at GTD Timer - it supports David Allen's Two Minute rule as well as many other techniques for GTD followers like Pomodoro Technique.
It is highly customizable, optimized for control with keystrokes and has unique feature called "presets".

everyone use ipad why i dont understand also every one write something about it is it really very good to always speak about it but thannk you for explantion i understand better

It is true alot of headunits out there have poor ipod intergration capabilities..with a few exceptions...though it is getting better