Sherwood RD-6500 sound problem

Yeah, it has to do with the codecs that you have in your player.
There are so many ways to encode video material and if your player is lacking the appropriate software they will not play back. The media players on computers are far more adept at playing videos - VLC will play back just about anything. but with TV's it is a crapshoot - DVD players are generally better then the tv's but still there is some material that even they will not play back unless it is in the right format for them.

MP4 is a video file. MP3 is audio. When setting your player make sure you tell it that it is a video file and not audio. If I mess up the two on my dvd player I will have a problem - I have to properly identify my source as either video or audio.

Just to verify...you've made sure that your headphones jack will play audio in lets say, some headphones, or a set of computer speakers?

However, your T.V. may not recognize audio when using VGA. I say this because if you look at the hook-ups on your T.V., you notice that most sections contain audio and video together, not seperate. If the port is available on your computer, trying using HDMI, the single cord for HDMI carries both sound and video. One last thing you can try with your current set up is find a set of the red and white rca hookups that are independent of any other grouping, in other words excluding the yellow video or any other connections. If you're T.V. wont play the sound in that, then either your headphones jack is messed up or the T.V. just wont recognize it while using VGA.

Hi, and yes I would agree with you that there is one channel not getting decoded. The likely problem is a setting in the menu of the dvd player under " AUDIO SETTINGS " . It may take a couple of trials and errors to get it back to where it was before ( just because we aren't sure what the original setting was )I would suggest that you make sure the " DIGITAL OUT " is set to " PCM " versus " LPCM " because this being improperly set can mess up your surround sound. Also there mar be settings for " DOWNMIX " labeled " LT/RT-STEREO and a couple others whose names escape me at the moment. Changing one or more of these will almost assuredly get you back on track. Good luck and thanks for choosing FixYa. I hope this helps, Prodzilla

you may have acidently changed the setting, mess around abit and I'm sure you'll find it :)

If you were just messing around with the keyboard, you have have just muted your audio output. You may even see in the lower right corner of your screen a red circle with a line through it over the volume control icon.
Laptop keyboards have function keys that let you mute your audio from the keyboard. Go into your control panel and click on the sounds icon, see if you have the mute box checked and uncheck it to un-mute your audio

You have to manually sync the instruments. While playing press the PS button go to settings, accesory settings and assign each controller individually a number from 1-4.

alright. make sure that your red, green and blue are all plugged in properly and that your audio plugs are also in there correct plugs. i think audio is red and yellow. correct me if im mistaken

I feel your pain regarding the w350i and the problems you are having getting it to play video. I finally got mine sorted today so let me give you some help which I promise you will work. It took me a month of exchanging angry emails with Sony Ericsson to finally find out the file format, container, and resolution and if you don't get this right, you'll just get audio when you try to play your videos. The people at SE tried to fob me off with "The w350i doesn't play videos" but I wasn't having any of it, and eventually they gave me the information I was looking for.

First of all, get a copy of SUPER from Erightsoft & install it. It's free, and is great because it gives you complete control over the many aspects of a video file. Then choose these settings EXACTLY (ones you can vary to your personal taste are maked with a "*"):

Output Container: 3gp (Nokia/NEC/Siemens) that's right, not the Sony Ericsson option!
Output Video Codec: H.263
Output Audio Codec: AAC

Check the Direct Decode box.

Video Size: 176:144
Aspect: 11:9
Frame/sec: 12.5
Bitrate: 192* (play around with this setting to get your favourite trade-off between file-size & picture quality, but beware that bitrates over 320 will give you audio/video sync issues)

Sampling Frequency: 44,100* (you can set this lower if sound quality is less important)
Channels: 2* (select "1" for mono sound and a slightly smaller filesize)
Bitrate: 112* (for a decent sounding audio, you can reduce if you are using the speaker rather than headphones. If you go any higher you may get sync problems)

SUPER actually lets you save your settings, so if you would like me to send/upload a copy of my settings file, just shout & it will import all these settings for you.

Also, while you are playing around with SUPER, a handy option is to encode only the first "x" seconds of a file. So you can do lots of different short encodes at different settings to find out what works best for you. Just select options on the right hand side of the SUPER window and a pop-out box will appear. Here you can tweak the volume (a little boost is usually good) and also auto generate a jpg you can use as a thumbnail.

Don't bother using the SE transfer software, just drag and drop your 3gp files into the Videos folder on your w350i in file transfer mode.

If you would like me to upload a sample file to see my results and make sure they play on your phone first, just shout.

check that the video plug (the yellow one) is firmly connected to the correct port on the back of your television set. Make sure that the video card port on your television matches up with the audio ports your game system is currently plugged in to, e.g. make sure if your audio is going to Audio 1, that your video also goes to Video 1 and not Video 2.

First I will try the following

1. Go into the Setup Screen (via your remote), there are some audio setting. Change it to see it makes a difference. Make sure it is not muted.

2. change from 2 Channel to 6.1/5.1 channels. At the bottom of the remote, there are a bunch of audio setting, play with it and see if it makes a difference.