Setting NPVR up

[saitoh183]

Ignoring live tv, if you do a recording, then play it, do you get audio?

Nope, tried to record and video moves really fast but no audio

Here is a log after trying to record and inside a Media info file of the video created

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There is nothing particularly obvious there. It looks like its successfully telling the Colossus to use the SPDIF input. The vid.html indicates it's got an AAC audio track, which probably means the Colossus thinks it was getting PCM audio over the SPDIF and it's tried to encode it as AAC.

I'd try playing the recording in something like VLC to make absolutely sure you don't get audio.

[saitoh183]

There is nothing particularly obvious there. It looks like its successfully telling the Colossus to use the SPDIF input. The vid.html indicates it's got an AAC audio track, which probably means the Colossus thinks it was getting PCM audio over the SPDIF and it's tried to encode it as AAC.

I'd try playing the recording in something like VLC to make absolutely sure you don't get audio.

Tried that and it plays in Fast forward kind of with no audio...VLC,WMP

My LAV audio is set with default settings AC3 and DTS ticked..i dont get how last night it was all fine using AC3filter (AC3 6ch...still have the test recordings) and this morning take it off screen saver start it up from XBMC and nadda...then start it up from NPVR and no audio. could it be related to some sort of idle that messed things up. All my HTPC has set is screensaver and then turn off monitor.

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Does it work in ArcSoft Showbiz?

[saitoh183]

Does it work in ArcSoft Showbiz?

I dont have it installed...Only installed Wintv7 + Drivers, then Npvr + patches needed...should removing everything and start from scratch?

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I'd just add the Showbiz app and try it there.

Since WinTV is doing the same thing, it's looking like a Colossus problem at this stage.

[saitoh183]

I'd just add the Showbiz app and try it there.

Since WinTV is doing the same thing, it's looking like a Colossus problem at this stage.

Showbiz is the same...I removed all the drivers and also Wintv and reinstalled them and video under Showbiz is great but audio still says AAC 2 channels. Changing it from RCA to optical, and the video is little bit more choppy but until i can get sound thats not really important...I didnt reinstall NPVR since it doesnt seem to be the culprit. So how do i get AAC to come over the SPDIF since it doesnt seem to be using AC3? As i stayed before the optical cable is going from my HD8300 to the Colossus and another Optical from my onboard sound to my SA-BT730....

[saitoh183]

Ok so i figured it out..i think..The reason why i was getting AAC output from all channels was because i needed to plug in the RCA audio wires at both ends and then re-plug the optical wire and now im getting AC3 on all channels. I dont know if this is specific to the HD8300 STB or this is how you need to plug the Colossus on all STB to get AC3 to work, but ever since i did that, it seems to work with no problems at the moment...no stutter or video quality lost in any program (NPVR, WinTV or Showbiz)...Now to fix XBMC... and test out when record and livetv is stored on the network...