No sound in recordings

[Gibson99]

i just tried experimenting with lower and lower quality settings to try and save disk space... with everything at its absolute lowest setting with variable bitrate, i had no sound in recordings made with gbpvr, though the video was fine (viewable, but obviously not as pretty as it could be) but i also had no sound playing the recording back in gbpvr. it should be noted that at higher settings, both audio and video work fine in gbpvr. however - media player classic (which can be had with real alternative or quicktime alternative - check out sourceforge) plays the super low quality .mpg just fine, but windoze media player (9 i think) also has no sound. i remember sub saying that gbpvr uses hooks or something from wmp to do the work behind the scenes, so that kinda makes sense.

when i read the previous poster's response, i went to look at what my audio decoder/render settings were. render was my sound card (not "default" or direct sound), and decoder was ffdshow. it also gives me the option for intervideo, Default MPEG, and system default. i can't try them right now since there's a recording going on, but i will try them later tonight and post results.

edit - i am still running 97.7 - just found out about 98.8 and don't have time to try it right now.

[sub]

Its probably just a matter of changing the audio decoder.

[Gibson99]

yup, i changed to the intervideo noncss audio decoder, and all is good. note that system default, ffdshow and mpeg didn't work at that low quality setting, but did at higher quality. go figure. i can't tell any difference in cpu overhead, and for the type of recordings i'd use that super low setting for, audio quality doesn't matter that much. i've got the higher settings for movies and such where it does matter.

however, i do have another, completely different problem. whenever i use fastfwd >> or rewind << it turns the WAVE volume all the way down, and i have to go to the windows mixer to turn it back up. i had to turn off the "use short skip instead of FF/RW" for the WAF... she likes how her parents' tivo was set up, but hey, at least there's still >| and |< for bigger skips, which i like. i didn't have this problem till i turned off short skip. this happens whether i'm watching something recorded with gbpvr, or divx/mpegs/realmedia i've made/downloaded/etc. the ONLY addon i have for gbpvr is the weather plugin. pressing right on the directional pad (hauppage 45 button) doesn't do anything to bring sound up, nor does the volume button.

i'd attach a log file, but there are so many... i don't know which one you'd want to see.