4.0.5 tries to use AAC renderer for AC3 after channel change

[sgilani]

On 4.0.5, upon a channel change (hdpvr2) nPVR seems to erroneously try to render audio as AAC even though its AC3. I get the "you dont have an AAC decoder" message and no audio.

Logs attached. sub, I can get you access to the box if that would help. I think AC3 support is quite brittle and has been for a while now. If I force the hdpvr2 to re-encode as stereo in AAC then everything works great, but losing surround sound is a deal breaker.

[sub]

What is the general sequence of events? Start on an HDPVR2 channel with AC3 coming from set top box, then change to another HDPVR2 channel also delivering AC3?

[sgilani]

What is the general sequence of events? Start on an HDPVR2 channel with AC3 coming from set top box, then change to another HDPVR2 channel also delivering AC3?

Yes, that's right.

[sub]

Can you see if this helps?

[sgilani]

Still seeing the same issue with the patch. Here's new logs..

[sub]

Can you set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\NPVR\ LogDemux=1 (DWORD) in the registry then, reproduce the problem, then post the c:\temp\demux.txt.

Remember to delete this registry setting afterwards - having it enabled can cause performance problems.

[sgilani]

No problem, here it is.

[sub]

Sorry, any chance you try do it again, then post that demux.txt and npvr.log? I'll need a matching set from the same attempt.

[sgilani]

No problem, demux and logs attached.

[sub]

Narrowing it down, but sorry...need one more log:

LogReaderAutomap=1 (DWORD)

This will create a c:\temp\reader-automap.log.

Ideally I'll get those other files above too.