2013-09-16, 07:38 PM
I receive MeTV as an SD QAM channel, its single audio track being "Track 1 [AC3, eng]." Nevertheless, I found that I got choppy audio if I enabled any MPEG1 Audio decoder (which I don't need personally, having no analog channels; I'm just investigating the issue reported by PVRDon). I'm using AC3Filter ver. 1.63b. In AC3Filter Properties, I tried unchecking MPEG Audio on the Systems tab, but that did not solve the issue. I then made the config change suggested earlier by johnsonx42: <ForcedLiveTVClock>AC3 Audio Renderer</ForcedLiveTVClock> I was careful to restart NPVR Service after editing config. That setting appears to have solved the choppy audio issue in my case, so perhaps PVRDon was too hasty in testing that setting. However I don't have WinTV installed, so perhaps there is also some conflict between AC3Filter and the Hauppauge decoders that PVRDon is using.
So what's unique about the audio on MeTV and a few other channels that PVRDon gets? Although muxed as AC3, I suspect that MeTV's audio is 2-channel, but have no way of testing that myself. For one thing, MeTV is devoted to reruns from the analog era, so any six-channel audio track would be an upconverted fabrication. Probably most North American members get that channel in one form or another.
So what's unique about the audio on MeTV and a few other channels that PVRDon gets? Although muxed as AC3, I suspect that MeTV's audio is 2-channel, but have no way of testing that myself. For one thing, MeTV is devoted to reruns from the analog era, so any six-channel audio track would be an upconverted fabrication. Probably most North American members get that channel in one form or another.
