No sound on recording (but there on live TV)

[nchamp]

I treated myself to a new LCD TV at the weekend, so completely re-wired my AV setup, which has been running with GBPVR very nicely for a couple of years.

In the process I tried to figure out a couple of things that had defeated me when I first set it all up. I'm in the UK, running a basic Sky setup, and my PVR has a Hauppauge 350 card in it, which can take input from both a coax 'aerial' cable and a composite/s-video cable. Originally I hadn't been able to get the card to 'see' the composite input, but trying again, noodling around, I found that 'composite 2' works (I didn't know there were different sorts of composite signal).

So, I was happy, and thought I'd get better quality using composite rather than RF over coax. However, when all setup, I found that while watching live TV works fine, recorded programmes have no sound!

This makes me think that it can't be a hardware or cabling issue - if GBPVR happily gives me sound when playing 'Live', but not when recording, it must be a software issue, no?

For now, I've reverted back to the coax cable, which is working fine.

Any ideas, anyone?

[JavaWiz]

I treated myself to a new LCD TV at the weekend, so completely re-wired my AV setup, which has been running with GBPVR very nicely for a couple of years.

In the process I tried to figure out a couple of things that had defeated me when I first set it all up. I'm in the UK, running a basic Sky setup, and my PVR has a Hauppauge 350 card in it, which can take input from both a coax 'aerial' cable and a composite/s-video cable. Originally I hadn't been able to get the card to 'see' the composite input, but trying again, noodling around, I found that 'composite 2' works (I didn't know there were different sorts of composite signal).

So, I was happy, and thought I'd get better quality using composite rather than RF over coax. However, when all setup, I found that while watching live TV works fine, recorded programmes have no sound!

This makes me think that it can't be a hardware or cabling issue - if GBPVR happily gives me sound when playing 'Live', but not when recording, it must be a software issue, no?

For now, I've reverted back to the coax cable, which is working fine.

Any ideas, anyone?

I suspect it is probably related to whatever
audio decoder you have set (config playback tab). Does sound play if you use a different player ?

[nchamp]

I suspect it is probably related to whatever
audio decoder you have set (config playback tab). Does sound play if you use a different player ?

I've not tried changing the decoder, partly because I couldn't quite see how the way the signal is delivered to the capture card (coax or composite) could affect the way GB-PVR processed the captured content later.

And also, I got into a world of pain with trying different video & audio decoders when trying to get SPDIF to work

[sub]

I'd also try a different audio decoder.

[nchamp]

OK, I seem to hav sorted it, and despite my initial thoughts, I think it *was* down to cabling.

The cheap nasty Sky box has 2 Scart outs and also a separate stereo audio out. I was running the audio out to my AV amp, and expecting one of the scarts to also carry audio to the Haupauge 350, but it seemed - well, unreliable. But, with suitable splitters, I'm sending the audio out to both AV amp and PVR350, and it seems ok.

Thanks for the advice all the same.