[mythtv-users] Capturing 5.1 audio

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/12/05 19:55, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>Nope.  ATSC (US high-definition TV) is broadcast already encoded using
>>the MPEG-2 system.  The audio is encoded in an AC-3 stream within the
>>transport stream.  So, it's just there.
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>Hmm so since I setup the mp3 audio encoding on the video profiles I would
>trash the AC-3 stream off my hdtv card. Yet, if I dont compress audio my
>hdtv card audio will be AC-3, but I will suck up huge space with the 44K
>audio off my 2 plextor boxes.
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AIUI, those parameters (and bitrate, etc.) of the profile are not used 
for HDTV capture cards since the stream is just dumped to disk.  So, you 
can set the audio encoding to whatever you'd like.

Mike