NO sound on recorded shows

[tech_meister]

Hope someone can help me with this.

A few days ago I had picture problems, the cause seemed to be my satalite dish.
I got the sky man out to check it and he said it was alright, but he put a couple of stays on it anyway to help with a wind problems.

In proccess of finding what the problem was I uninstalled and re-installed GV-PVR
and had to retune my HVR 3000 but also because I wanted to add the new TV3 Plus channel
I had very hard time getting the TV card to tune and it would not find any of thr Freeview channels unless I used the sky decoder as the power supply.
The TV card did not seem to be able to operate the duel sky LNB properly.
and in case your wondering, no I don't have sky I am only able to recieve prime with my sky install, it is just a cheap way ($145) to get a dish for freeview and you get prime and a decoder as well.
Anyway to cut along story short, now in GB-PVR when I record a show with the TS Mux I have no sound on play back, if I change to the ATI Mux it works ok. The problem is I would rather use the TS Mux as I can record multilpe channels.
I had a look at the logs but no errors show up.
Anybody have any Ideas ?

As a side note I updated all the Hauppage drivers in the process and installed the new WINTV 7 and it won't find any Freeview channels even with the Sky decoded plugged in and yet GB-PVR can...strange, also WinTV 7 will play the recorded TS files no problem ?

[psycik]

you might want to try different mpeg2 decoders. I had to run through a couple. Try mpa decoder (from free codecs).

Do you get sound on live preview?

[tech_meister]

Yes, live TV works fine, it's just the recorded stuff.
It worked ok before with the mpeg2 decoders I have now ?
Cyberlink one works best for me.

[sub]

As psycik says, its most likely the decoders causing the problem.

Play a recording, then zip and attach the pvrx2.exe-native.log and I'll check.

[psycik]

Also a sanity check is to use vlc to play the recording. It doesn't, and cannot fix the problem, but it can assure you that the video has sound in it.

As VLC is completely self contained with all required decoders it can be used to demonstrate that you haven't got a faulty recording.

[tech_meister]

Yes, I have already done that and the recordings play fine with sound.
So the recordings seem to be ok, just can't hear sound when GB-PVR plays them.

I'll do what sub says and attach a log file.
Thanks for your replys

[tech_meister]

Attached are the logs.
I also included the recording service logs as well, just in case you need it.
The recordings seem to have a problem as well now since I changed to the
TS mux (apart from no sound on play back) the video is all pixelated at times which never happened before,starting to wonder if my HVR 3000 is having a melt down. This is similar to the original problem i was having.
Thanks.

[tech_meister]

OK, I think I have found the problem (you guys were right)
I think it has something to do with my Audio decoders.
I updated the sound card drivers a while back, maybe that has something to do with it as well.
I installed AC3 filter and when I select that as the audio decoder GB-PVR plays the recordings ok, but I must say that i have selected that decoder before with no success so not sure really ? perhaps a combination of things.
I don't think AC3 filter is very Vista friendly (what is).
As for the pixelating problem, I will have to investigate further.
Thanks for your help, guys, always had to be something to do with the decoders.

[sub]

I installed AC3 filter and when I select that as the audio decoder GB-PVR plays the recordings ok

Great.

[cisconz]

I am having the same issue,
I have tried the codec's installed on my system.
I will try the mpa codec now.
Just tried with mpa, same result