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231295 2004-04-22 22:29:00 Hi,

Bought a Mustek DVD player from Dick Smiths for $89 - good buy, but the sound doesnt seem to be working properly .

it is 5 . 1 channel dolby digital . Could someone tell me how the plugs are meant to be set up?

The TV has "AV 1 in" and "out", and the video and audio plugs for each (yellow and white) .

The DVD player has "Video Out" which i've plugged the yellow cable into the yellow jack; "Audio Out" with "Rear L" and "Front L" they are the only white jacks . Which one do I plug the audio cable into?

By "the sound doesnt seem to be working properly" I mean that like in some parts the sound is working, and in some areas there is no sound .

Is it the DVD player, or the cables?

thanks
caffy
caffy (2665)
231296 2004-04-22 22:49:00 They are indeed a very good DVD player in my opinion as well.

My sound works fine using the "Front R and Front L" sockets only, my TV has stereo inputs.

If you have a mono input to the TV (one Audio socket only) you may need to buy a lead that takes 2 RCA to 1 RCA, or an adapter to parallel the leads into the DVD. Otherwise you may still be missing 1 channel.

Then you need to go into the setup menu on the DVD player and set audio to 2 channel.

Otherwise bits of the sound will indeed be missing.
godfather (25)
231297 2004-04-22 23:01:00 So could u explain to me what cable i need?

I've got the one that was provided - has three on each end - yellow, white and red .

Do i have to buy an adapter, that the red and white will plug into the Front R and Front L, and then the other end plugs into the adapter which will plug into the Audio AV 1 in?
caffy (2665)
231298 2004-04-22 23:36:00 Its still very unclear from your post what you need, sorry.

But - if you TV is Mono, and you only have 1 Audio socket then you need this adapter.

www.dse.co.nz

Combined both channels into 1
godfather (25)
231299 2004-04-23 00:38:00 My tv only has a few jacks, so I'm assuming its mono .

Will go and buy that adapter and see if it does the trick .
caffy (2665)
231300 2004-04-23 11:45:00 Sorry to hijack this thread, but it reminded me of an evil thing I thought of the other day. If you took such an adapter, and used it to combine two video signals into a video port (instead of combining stereo audio into mono audio), what would likely happen. I'm not rich enough to risk the damage... ;)

Lizard
Lizard (2409)
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