Another quick update, an audiophile friend has suggested it may be an issue with how pulseaudio is routing my audio.
Apparently much of the main dialog comes through the centre channel on a 5.1 surround system, while the ambiance comes through the others. Mplayer appears to have surround sound disabled by default (http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/advaudio-surround.html), while totem and VLC appear to support it by default. I will check this tonight and post back later. -- dvd playback does not play the dialog audio track https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs