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David [Visitor] in response to: How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac

David [Visitor] — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:33:09 +0000

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.

lake jake [Visitor] in response to: Quote of the day - Computers and programmers

lake jake [Visitor] — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:12:28 +0000

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

Chris H [Visitor] in response to: How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac

Chris H [Visitor] — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:10:37 +0000

@ 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.

Zack [Visitor] in response to: And I also like non switchers!

Zack [Visitor] — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:36:45 +0000

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.

Jake [Visitor] in response to: AC3 codec for Intel Mac (Universal)

Jake [Visitor] — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:10:12 +0000

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

cheap outdoor gear [Visitor] in response to: How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac

cheap outdoor gear [Visitor] — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:08:48 +0000

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

Bredbånd [Visitor] in response to: How to autoplay movies in QuickTime X

Bredbånd [Visitor] — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:10:09 +0000

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

NAZ [Visitor] in response to: How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac

NAZ [Visitor] — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:38:37 +0000

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