[mythtv-users] Not getting Dolby Prologic out of s/pdif

[Matt]

On 3/15/06, Warren <warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> On 3/15/06, Steve Skarda <steveskarda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Make sure you have use video as timebase turned off in the
> playback
settings. Having it checked will allow digital signals to work but
> AC3
passthrough won't. Not sure if that is related to your problem or not.

>
> It is turned off. Let me just try to quickly sum up my issue: 1) I receive
> HDTV OTA ATSC signal via HD5000 2) The first audio track says it's AC3 5.1
> 3) Receiver set to "AFD" - Auto Format Decode 4) When it receives the
> signal, the LCD on the receiver doesn't do anything (doesn't say what kind
> of signal it is receiving" and I can hear noice out of my left and right
> channels, but never the full signal (missing voices, etc). 5) If I switch
> the receiver to "Normal Surround" I'll get the channels, but the receiver
> NEVER says it's decoding AC3. 6) If I play a Standard Def recording from my
> PVR250/500, the receiver will get the signal and say it's playing a PCM
> signal. I think I'm going to submit a ticket, but before I do that, what
> else should I do/try/troubleshoot? Thanks! Matt
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> Have you tried saving the stream to the HD, extracting some of the audio and
> using a program (headac3he?) to break apart the stream and see what it is
> you are actually getting?  That would probably be better than all of the
> guesswork going on here.  At least at that point you can know if the problem
> is the capture or the playback.

Nope... I'll be happy to do it if you tell me what to do :)

Matt