[mythtv-users] Missing E-AC3 audio in DVB-T channel

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Jan 16 12:19:42 UTC 2013


On 16/01/13 11:50, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 16/01/13 11:33, Diego Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm facing a problem in my mythTV setup.
>> I'm running a FE/BE on ubuntu 12.10 64bits (kernel 3.5.0-22), taking
>> mythtv 0.26 from mythbuntu repos. Computer is updated.
>> I have a Hauppage WinTV Nova-T 500 dual DVB-T tuner working fine for
>> most channels, but one. AMD Athlon II 260, 4 GB RAM, nVidia graphics
>> card using privative driver.
>>
>> There is one channel (TVE-HD) broadcasting video in 720p h.264, and
>> audio in E-AC3 (Dolby Digital+). I can watch it ok, but there is no
>> sound. If I record any show in that channel, the file has no audio
>> stream.
>>
>> Menu in live TV shows no audio option. Every other channel (broadcasted
>> in MPEG/MP2 despite being SD or HD) is fine.
>>
>> dmesg shows "dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to
>> the software demuxer." so there should be audio, right?
>>
>> Anyone knows if's it a problem with my DVB-T tuner (hardware not being
>> able to receive E-AC3 audio), Video4linux modules in kernel (dib0700,
>> dvb-usb...) or mythtv's fault?
>>
>> Any help welcome.
>>
>
> Missing codec?  mythffmpeg -i <filename>, or mediainfo might help.
>

On my 0.25.3 box, 'mythffmpeg -codecs' output includes:

  D A    eac3            ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3)

Is the problem just in parsing this?

John P






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