[mythtv-users] Sound occasionally not present when I copy files away from mythtv

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 23:26:10 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> I am recording DVB-T (in the UK) from a number of identical Nova T 500
> cards. When playing back on my mythfrontend everything is fine. However
> I also like to watch from a windows XP computer. I have samba on the
> backend and I just watch the files from the network drive. Most of the
> time this works fine but every so often there is no sound. When I play
> the same file in mythtv there is sound. Does anyone have any idea what
> might cause this. Could it be some form of meta data that is used
> differently in XP and linux?
>
> I also have a similar problem when I try and watch programmes on my
> mobile phone. Both files in the original MPEG 2 played in windows. I
> then converted both using a batch process in SUPER to H.264 at 320x240
> with the same settings. Both have great pictures, but only one has audio.
>
> Has anyone else had a similar problem? Are there any tools to analyse
> the audio on a file to view encoding rate, stereo or mono etc.

Do the files that don't play have ac3 sound perhaps?

if that is the problem instal ac3filter on the windows machine.


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