Sound again

[ajst2duk]

Hi there..... the one thing that I still grapple with (Auck NZ DVB-T) is the aac latm here. I'm using vista on a gigabyte mobo with on-board realtek. Usual setup including PDVD-V8 and monogram 0.9.5.0.

Live TV has sound quality that varies from fine to awful, at times breaking up, most times having little pops and dropouts. This is the only application that I run that causes this, replaying recorded TV is perfect, music, blu-ray, dvd etc all sound fine.
Be interested in how many others have this issue, and whether there is any commonality around those that do?

I'm waiting on an external DAC (Citypulse 2.03E) which I hope will make a real difference, in the meantime, GBPVr is officially the new entertainment centre of our family's universe, despite the annoying sound issues with live DVB-T.
I know sub you have been looking at other decoder options, is there anything in the pipe at this stage that looks good?\

Of others that have similar issue, are you using a realtek audio chip? I'm pretty sure eveyone's not in the same boat. Alternatively, anyone using an external DAC similar to the citypulse, another I looked at was the perreaux usb dac.

[sub]

The MONOGRAM AAC decoder is pretty flakey and does sometimes produce these sorts of problems. Unfortunately it is the only usable decoder that handles this audio type. Hopefully we'll see other decoders in the near future, giving us other options. I've seen at least one other decoder in the works, but it too has some problems. I'm sure its just a matter of time though.

It may not help, but you could try setting <ForceAudioReferenceClock> to true in config.xml, and set your audio renderer to something other than 'system default'.

[ajst2duk]

Thanks, I've tried the config and it doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference - I have also tried a few different renderer's. I'll just sit tight & wait for things to tighten up when more options come along.