This seems like a badly converted Video CD - is it? Get the content
provider to make a decent copy instead of abusing left and right channels.
VLC supporting that brokenness doesn't mean that it's a well encoded file.
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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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