[mythtv] DVB audio rate fixed?

[Kenneth Aafløy]

Hi,

Paul Woodward wrote:
> Is the DVB audio bit-rate fixed at 128kb/sec? Might be 
> jumping to conclusions, but here's my scenario:

It should not be, as it's based on libavcodec (ffmpeg), which also
mplayer hase built in.

> I am trying to use the UK freeview radio channels (BBC7 
> etc.), but the frontend complains about 'Audio buffer 
> overflow' and it's very broken up. (I have set the Video PID 
> to another channel's video pid to keep myth from crashing).

This overflow is probably caused by other problems than decoder
(libavcodec) trouble. Which version of MythTV have you?

> The only difference between the radio station and BBC 
> Parliament (which works fine, video pid as above) as far as I 
> can tell is that the audio on BBCP is 128kb/sec and BBC7 is 
> transmitted at 160kb/sec.
> 
> I can play both fine using dvbstream and mplayer on the command line.

mplayer does not use ffmpeg by default, but this can be specified on the
cmd line, check man for details.

Kenneth