AverMedia AVerTV Hybrid Max Volar and no sound!

[CarlScheider]

I have a fine picture, but cannot get sound.
I am an utter newbie – despite being an “older” gentleman.
Can someone help? I tried searching in the forums – could not come up with an answer. Thanks!

• Tuner – Avermedia / AverTV Hybrid TV Volar Max. I bought this a long time ago, and have been using it with MediaCenter with no problems. So I assume I have all the drivers / etc. on this machine. I want to move to Windows 8, and thought NextPVR looked like a better bet than MediaCenter.
• PC – Windows 7.
• TV Signal – over the air digital.
• Next DVR – latest version: 3.2.9.

Problem. I get a fine picture – after finally figuring out to set the Video Decoder to AVerMedia!
But I cannot get sound, no matter what option I choose. It also records fine, but no sound on live TV.
And I really do not understand the sound options on over the air digital. What am I doing wrong? And a pointer to a tutorial on all of this would be nice too.

Many thanks. Appreciate all you do here.

[mvallevand]

Your going to need to install an AC3 audio decoder for OTA. LAV (my choice) and AC3 Filter are good choices.

Martin

[sub]

Yep, what he said - you need an AC3 decoder.

[CarlScheider]

Sounds easy enough. Unfortunately, I did a search and found this world of codecs thing - which apparently has just installed a world of ads pile of schmuck. Now to get rid of that. Thanks! A nice tutorial on all of this video stuff would be nice.

[sub]

Just install the LAV decoders from https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases (the xxxxxx-installer.exe option is the most straight forward)

[CarlScheider]

I got it - and it works. Thanks. Folks are very gracious here to us novices.
I have ONE more question - but I think it deserves it's own thread.
I keep thinking other folks must go down this road first.
I'll go search on it first. Just wonder if I need to have the machine up and running for a recording to work. I can experiment a bit, but I'm sure there's some documentation on that somewhere!

Thanks again.

[sub]

Just wonder if I need to have the machine up and running for a recording to work.

NextPVR will ask Windows to be awake at the times it has any recording due, so Windows will typically wake the machine from standby/hibernate to do recordings.

[CarlScheider]

Got it. I did find that in the forums. Windows MediaCenter would work even if I logged off.
I take it NextPVR will not as it will not let me log off without shutting down the service.
That's fine. Sleep is perfect.

Many thanks for this product. Works slick.

[sub]

Sure, you don't need to be logged in, or have the NextPVR.exe front end running. The recording service runs as a service in the background.

[CarlScheider]

Aha. The best of all worlds.
Sorry about this - you really need a "newbie" how to. I read all the stickies and manual - still left me questions.
I worked in IT for 30 years, have messed around with MediaCenter a bit - but it was still a little bit of a problem getting this together.
Not terrible - just not something a real "end user" would attempt.
Maybe I'll take a shot at that.
I found some good help here: http://blog.mattwoodward.com/2013/02/ins...vr-as.html

Many thanks again - you do good work.