No sound when playing .ts files after upgrade to 1.3.11

[sub]

1.3.7 and 1.3.11 did the same. Previous versions were different.

[JonnyCam]

so that when its doing live tv it can change to a channel with a different audio type without having to stop and restart everything.

I didn't think that the TS reader was used during LiveTV (or is that live timeshifted TV?)

[sub]

Yes, timeshift mode live tv.

[crlorentzen]

AC3Filter is the way to go, it seems to manage the multiple connections internally and still provides all the functionality I was using ffdshow audio decoder to provide.

So no worries, and, sub thank you as always for your assistance and continued work. I know I can be a little bit pushy and opinionated but you are extremely good at synthesizing useful information and getting down to the problem at hand. Thank you much.

[JonnyCam]

AC3Filter is the way to go, it seems to manage the multiple connections internally and still provides all the functionality I was using ffdshow audio decoder to provide.

Are you upscaling to 5.1 DD from ac3filter on SPDIF? If so, are you able to send me the settings you have used to get this work work with multiple stream TS files?
I think all of the AC3filter settings reside in one registry key if that made it easier.
Whenever I had a ac3encoding selection in ffdshow or ac3filter, it refsued to play sound.

[drain]

Ac3 filter should be set to 'prefer other decoder' in the system tab.

Thanks, that seems to have done the trick for the moment, but I'd still like to figure out how to upscale like I could with the previous version.

[crlorentzen]

I run basically three Audio Decoders/Filters; ffdshow, oggfilters (Adds directshow support for FLAC container), and AC3Filter. I tell ddshow to not care about AC3/DTS and to output in 32bit resolution for PCM. Then I have AC3Filter manage all of its supported codecs including AC3, DTS, PCM, SPDIF. Then I set SPDIF passthrough for AC3 and DTS and enable encoding for all audio.

SO now when I watch a TS file I guess that the AAC pin gets connected to ffdshow, no sound is generated...but it is PCM and is ignored by AC3filter which is passing through my AC3 track.

[crlorentzen]

Alternate fix to never have problems with SPDIF related failures with multiple audio tracks.

use only ffdshow and enable the built in stream switcher. Not sure how this will interact with a TS that actually has AC3 and AAC (As mine only have AC3). Came up with this today and I think it will greatly simplify my HTPC.

[Snooze]

Thanks! I was pulling my hair trying to figure out why my multiple recordings had no sound. It was AC3 filter, I changed it to AC3 only, and it had sound on recordings again. Using ffdfilter for the decoder, all using SPDIF.

[rathrick]

i have a sound problem playing back recorded tv but sound plays ok in high def surround sound but normal standard recordings get no sound, i have spdif out and have tried settings in fdd and have also tried ac3 to control depending on the setting it will play one but not the other but when i get it to play standard def and then try to play other videos i get a very heavy static noise?