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Dennis McClaren
Mar 28, 2007

"Hey, don't put capture a guy!"
...Well I've got to put something!
So this is pretty strange and google hasn't helped me fix the issue...

I have a bunch of .mkv files of TV shows, that I watch on my laptop, and stream on my portable Bluetooth speaker. The speaker plays all episodes of TV shows, Youtube, other streaming apps just fine. But when I try to play a .mkv file out of my "movies" folder, none of them have sound.

This is boggling, because it's not like the file type is any different than a TV show, it's still a .mkv, it's just a movie.

I have updated the B.T. Drivers on the speaker and the laptop. I have removed, and re-paired the device with my laptop. I've turned the B.T. interface off, and back on with Windows 10. So far none of my fixes get the sound to play on movie files.

Anyone have some guidance here please?

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Dr Cox MD
Sep 11, 2001

Listen Up, Newbies.
Tried different players, like VLC and MPC?

Fiddled with the Playback Devices and Volume Mixer?

Taiso
Feb 20, 2002

Crush them now!
The movies likely have 5.1 audio, in your playback software force to stereo output and see if that works.

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