Missing audio PID with The CW recordings

[robena]

The HD stream of The CW contains normally 2 audio PIDS: 0x801 and 0x802.

With a MyHD card for example, the recordings contain these 2 PIDs.

With the HDHomeRun, used with the BDA Multiplexer TS MUX option, the PMT of the TS file describes these 2 audio PIDs, but there is no 0x801 audio packets in the file, they get lost in the process.

I use HDTVtoMPEG2 to trim these TS files, and since it keeps by default only the first audio track, I can end up with files with no audio at all if I forget to manually select the second audio PID.

Can the TS muxer be configured to keep all the audio PIDS?

[sub]

Its kind of hard to debug this kind of thing. Does the HDHomeRun log any info about the PIDs it is passing through? The HDHomeRun only passes on a subset of the PIDs from the original transport stream, unlike the MyHD which would pass the entire transport stream to the app using including all PIDs.

[robena]

Its kind of hard to debug this kind of thing. Does the HDHomeRun log any info about the PIDs it is passing through? The HDHomeRun only passes on a subset of the PIDs from the original transport stream, unlike the MyHD which would pass the entire transport stream to the app using including all PIDs.

I found a workaround: when I map the channels, I get in fact 2 mappings for The CW.

The one I chose first was the one that indicates (AC3), and which seemed logical.

If I use the other mapping, it's the first audio PID this time that gets recorded. It's also AC3 (as far as I can tell, both PIDs have the same content), and that removes the potential problem with HDTVtoMPEG2.

Thanks.

[sub]

OK, cool.