[mythtv-users] mythvideo Internal player has no audio

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 08:36 pm, Grant Kwok wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I posted this on the list a while back but there was no response so
> I'm trying again.  =)
>
> I recently discovered that I can choose to use the internal player by
> specifying "Internal" instead of using mplayer.  When I use the
> Internal player the video is way smoother than when using mplayer
> because I'm using a 350 for output.  I would love to be able to use
> the internal player and start building a mythvideo library with my
> favourite dvd's.
>
> The only catch is when I choose to use the internal player, there is
> no sound.  Sound works fine when playing the exact same file with
> mplayer so it seems that the audio is being encoded into the file when
> I do the import from dvd and as well audio works fine when when
> watching live tv and recorded shows... it's soooo close, ideas anyone?

The pvr-350's decoder does not support AC3 audio.  It does not provide a way 
to select which audio track is decoded, so if the first audio track in a file 
is AC3, you won't get any audio.

Isaac