Audio Captions on BBC HD?

[sub]

I was just reading this thread as it got resurrected and was about to say the "audio" button on the PCH remote switches between the 'narrative' descriptions and the plain audio. It defaults to narrative and for me, the plain audio is much quieter than anything else coming out of the PCH

Unfortunately I dont have any say over the audio stream the PCH picks. It should really be defaulting to the first stream though, and not the narrative.

[martint123]

Unfortunately I dont have any say over the audio stream the PCH picks. .......

It wasn't a change or fix request, merely an observation

[sub]

I know - but its probably the sort of thing Syabas could fix easily though. It might be worth a post on their forums.

[martint123]

OK, I'll try to compose a semi-sensible post for them in the morning. g'nite

[macgyver]

DOH!!!
I can't believe I never thought to press the audio button!
It is annoying that it defaults to the wrong one and, as mentioned above, that it is much quieter but there you go.
Just need to get ITV HD working now - I can view it when mapping channels but when selecting to view live TV PCH says 'Could not play!' after the buffering screen.
Any ideas? Will check the logs and post if I see anything.
Cheers

[sub]

Just need to get ITV HD working now - I can view it when mapping channels but when selecting to view live TV PCH says 'Could not play!' after the buffering screen.
Any ideas? Will check the logs and post if I see anything.

ITV HD is transmitted with an invalid stream type, causing the PCH to be unable to play it. Unfortunately there is much I can do about this. Lets hope ITV fix this at some stage in the near future.

[martint123]

Lets hope ITV fix this at some stage in the near future.

I think it is done on purpose so that it is only available on "freesat" boxes and not on existing Sky boxes - AFAIK done for licensing purposes, as their programming is designed for UK reception and not all of Europe. Maybe they can at some point, find space on one of the narrow beam, UK only transponders to sort it out. Their advertisers won't liek an artificially restricted market.

[macgyver]

I think it is done on purpose so that it is only available on "freesat" boxes and not on existing Sky boxes - AFAIK done for licensing purposes

I had that thought too but the Hauppauge card is capable of playing it (you can preview it when mapping channels in config), just not the PCH.

[jonm]

When you use the TS Mux, it'll record all audio streams, and I think I remember reading that BBC HD carries AC3 and MPEG1 audio, so the PCH might be picking the MPEG1 audio channel. There is a button on the remote to switch audio channels.

I've just read this, as I'm having issues with narrative audio on BBC HD playback... If GB-PVR records all audio streams, how does it know which one to play back when I watch a recording?

Jon.

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I've just read this, as I'm having issues with narrative audio on BBC HD playback... If GB-PVR records all audio streams, how does it know which one to play back when I watch a recording?

It plays the first audio stream. Narrative streams are usually the last stream.

There was a bug where it was playing all streams, but a patch was posted somewhere for that.