okay yeah i know it TECHNICALLY doesn't belong here...

[magomago]

any ideas? ATOT is of course the most intellectual of all these places so I figure you guys would know
Although more realistically I'm sure you guys dealt with weird situations...

but is there any way to force mono audio...whether its through a specific player or windows itself? We got WMP, MPC, and GOM Player but can't figure it out through any of them

edit:

puts on a flame suit just in case you chew me out anyways

 

[bobsmith1492]

Hook up a summer using an op amp and three resistors -> sum the pair into one signal. That's the brute-force method (and really easy, too - google opamp summer).

 

[magomago]

that is beautiful and i do know what an omp amp summer is...but i have no access to them

 

[bobsmith1492]

Radio Shack could hook you up by 9 in the morning!

 

[ppdes]

There's a mono option in "Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Speaker settings -> Advanced... -> Speaker setup" on my machine at least.

The ffdshow DirectShow filter has a mixer section with a mono speaker setup option as well.

Media Player Classic has a suspicious setting in "View -> Options -> Interal Filters -> Audio Switcher -> Enable custom audio mapping" as well.

Too bad I can't think of any directional samples laying around here for a quick test run.

 

[Shawn]

why do you need mono?

 

[Rudy Toody]

Put an earplug in one ear.

 

[ForumMaster]

download and install the K-Lite Codec Pack (MPC plus ffddshow and a bunch of other codecs) and you can do it from there. in the audio ffddshow filter you can tell it to force mono.