HELP?!? Decoders & Codecs - Sound & Picture Problems

[Graham_Shepherd]

Hi

After struggling for a time with the stuttering/warbling sound I've discovered that taking one of the pair of Hauppage Nova-T 500 cards out has solved the problem!

I shall try and deal with one problem at a time.

Working with only one card installed I still cannot get sound and picture on BBC1. Sound is good, and programmed details appear on screen fine, but no picture.

I have downloaded the MPV/MPA decoders and tried all combination of video & audio decoders but still without any luck.

Does anyone have any other ideas please?

Why just BBC1? All the other channels are just fine.

Thanks


Graham

[sgilani]

Try the DScaler decoders, they are free and are pretty reliable.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/dsca...ilters.htm

[sub]

Hi

After struggling for a time with the stuttering/warbling sound I've discovered that taking one of the pair of Hauppage Nova-T 500 cards out has solved the problem!

I shall try and deal with one problem at a time.

Working with only one card installed I still cannot get sound and picture on BBC1. Sound is good, and programmed details appear on screen fine, but no picture.

I have downloaded the MPV/MPA decoders and tried all combination of video & audio decoders but still without any luck.

Does anyone have any other ideas please?

Why just BBC1? All the other channels are just fine.

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the logs and I'll take another look.

[Graham_Shepherd]

Hi Sub

Thank you, I've attached the current log files.

Regards


Graham

[Graham_Shepherd]

Hello again

I've just installed the DScaler codecs but without success. Still no picture on BBC1.

Attached are updated logs.

Any help would be appreciated thanks.

Regards


Graham

[sub]

Hi Sub

Thank you, I've attached the current log files.

You do have an H.264 decoder installed right?

The first thing I'd recommend doing it setting you H.264 decoder to something other than 'system default'.

[Graham_Shepherd]

You do have an H.264 decoder installed right?

The first thing I'd recommend doing it setting you H.264 decoder to something other than 'system default'.

From past experience, there is no 'one size fits all' decoder recommendation. It seems to vary wildly between between machines.

You dont need to worry about the 'H.264 Decoder' 'AAC Decoder' and 'HE AAC Decoder' settings since the UK DVB-T system doesnt use these codecs at this stage. Leave the audio renderer set to 'system default'. Now you only have to worry about choosing and audio decoder and video decoder.

Hiya Sub

No I do not have an H.264 decoder.

My only option in config is "system default" - I got the impression from our earlier posts that H.264 Decoders were not relevant to UK DVB-T.

If I do need one can you suggest an appropriate decoder to use please?

Thanks again for your help Sub.

Regards


Graham

ps: You're a busy man - out of interest how does your local time down in NZ compare with the time here in UK? Having just back up to London for the week it's a bit late - I'm sending this at 01.09am, your last post to me was at 5.15pm local time here I guess that this was morning time for you?

[sub]

2008-08-18 12:32:01.765 INFO BDARecorder:::StartRecording(Hauppauge Nova-T-500 DVB-T (2), 1, , T:C55,745834,0,0,8~NID:12303~ONID:9018~TSID:4099~P:4163~V:2~VTYPE:H264~A:601~L:eng~PMT:4163~LCN:1~PCR:600~N:>BBC ONE)

In your logs it certainly looked like an H.264 channel. If its not, then I'd delete you capture source and recreate, redoing the scan in the process.

ps: You're a busy man - out of interest how does your local time down in NZ compare with the time here in UK? Having just back up to London for the week it's a bit late - I'm sending this at 01.09am, your last post to me was at 5.15pm local time here I guess that this was morning time for you?

I get up pretty early. 4am-ish. We're 11 or 13 hours out at this time of the year I think.

[Deev8]

out of interest how does your local time down in NZ compare with the time here in UK?

NZ standard time is GMT + 12 hours. So right now that puts NZ 11 hours ahead of BST. In the summer in NZ (winter in the UK) the clocks advance by 1 hour for NZ Daylight Savings Time and the UK will have dropped back to GMT, so then NZ will be 13 hours ahead of the UK.

To confuse the issue slightly the clocks don't change in the UK and NZ on the same dates so there can be two or three weeks around the changeover time when NZ is 12 hours ahead of UK local time.

[Graham_Shepherd]

In your logs it certainly looked like an H.264 channel. If its not, then I'd delete you capture source and recreate, redoing the scan in the process.

Thanks Sub

Glad you've managed to identify a specific problem.

I will try this out when I get back home at the weekend.

Regards


Graham