[mythtv-users] Transcoding SDTV/HDTV with Ac3 Passthrough

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Mon Mar 28 05:02:26 UTC 2005


> Hey. The other day I just got a DNTV Live! DVB-T card, which I
> promptly put in the waiting PC to put MythTV on. :)
> 
> Most things seem fine (apart from not seeming to have enough grunt to
> watch hdtv broadcasts), except that if I have AC3 passthrough on
> (global setting) and try and get MythTV to transcode a recording that
> has a AC3 audio stream, it sounds like the transcoder is attempting to
> encode the AC3 stream itself, rather than transcode it (I get
> discordant white noise). Anyone know why this would be happening? Or
> if there are any workarounds apart from disabling pass through?

For automatic transcoding within Myth, this should be fixed in CVS now.
For transcodes done manually using the "-i" command line option to
mythtranscode, this is probably still broken.

-- 

Chris



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