[mythtv-users] RE: Transcoded Programs: Audio Problems

[David A. Mason]

One other thing: I seem to recall something on this list about using the
same bitrate as the original when transcoding, which I think I tried, but
I'm giving that one more chance.

I also happened to notice that mythfrontend's interface does, in fact, quite
clearly state that lower numbers for MP3 are higher quality. Silly me.

But, since transcoding takes a while, if anybody's got other advice, please
let me know.

DAM

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Mason [mailto:damason at davenet.mine.nu] 
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 23:02
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: Transcoded Programs: Audio Problems


OK, the video quality seems good, but I find that my audio is consistently
garbled (to unintelligibility) after having transcoded a program, and the
application's response to keystrokes seems to lag the longer I leave the
transcoded recording running, until, after a number of seconds of playback,
it hangs (just the app - not the machine).

Launching mythfrontend from a console so that I can read its error output
yields pretty much just normal messages.

Audio playback is perfect with untranscoded programs.

I have tried mp3 encoding at qualities 5 and 7. Oh, wait a second - are the
mp3 qualities also in reverse, with lower numbers being better? (Or perhaps
I'm the only one who think's that's backwards, since I haven't seen anyone
else say anything about it.) I've also tried with no compression - just
copying the stream, right? The result is the same - garbled series of
underwater staccatos.

Anybody encountered and overcome this problem?

Thanks,
DAM