I've come across a rather weird problem: When playing the 2020 BD release of the movie "Akira" (the 2K one, not the 4K remaster thingy), using the Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 bitstream audio track, the movie audio seems to drop out in particularly loud bits. It drops out for less than a second, and it's always the exact same spots. I've done quite a lot of troubleshooting on this for the last week, here's what I got so far:
Blu-ray player is a PS3 super slim (purchased ca. 2014 or something)
Soundbar is a Sony HT-ST5000
The PS3 is connected directly to the soundbar via an HDMI cable. Since this doesn't happen with any other movie (and doesn't happen on what is more or less an identical release), I see no reason to suspect that the cable is at fault (I guess I can try unplugging it and plugging it back in).
The only thing I haven't yet tried, at time of writing, is using a different player because I have to borrow one, something I'm hoping to do the coming week.
The main reason why I'm asking for help is to decide whether I need to have the disc replaced, or if the issue is more of a "this is a problem you might encounter on occasion and there's nothing that can really be done with it"-kind of thing, and I'm wondering why changing from bitstream to LPCM works.
- Changing to LPCM on the player, the problem goes away
- It doesn't happen with the other audio tracks on the same disc
- It doesn't happen with my 2011 (Manga UK) BD release, which should (in theory) have the exact same audio specifications (24-bit 192kHz audio remaster)
- Turning down the volume doesn't help
- I can't find any settings to adjust how my sound bar handles audio peaking. I was wondering if this could potentially be the issue, but Sony's user interface is so n00b-friendly that the only thing I can really adjust is this "sound field" thing
- Turning off DRC didn't change anything
- This has not happened on any other movie (The closest would be experiencing weird noises on the DTS-track of Cabin Fever on DVD).
Blu-ray player is a PS3 super slim (purchased ca. 2014 or something)
Soundbar is a Sony HT-ST5000
The PS3 is connected directly to the soundbar via an HDMI cable. Since this doesn't happen with any other movie (and doesn't happen on what is more or less an identical release), I see no reason to suspect that the cable is at fault (I guess I can try unplugging it and plugging it back in).
The only thing I haven't yet tried, at time of writing, is using a different player because I have to borrow one, something I'm hoping to do the coming week.
The main reason why I'm asking for help is to decide whether I need to have the disc replaced, or if the issue is more of a "this is a problem you might encounter on occasion and there's nothing that can really be done with it"-kind of thing, and I'm wondering why changing from bitstream to LPCM works.