[mythtv-users] dual (bilingual) sound

Petr Stehlik pstehlik at sophics.cz
Tue Nov 29 15:08:19 EST 2005


Michael T. Dean píše v Út 29. 11. 2005 v 14:06 -0500:

> >does MythTV support dual sound (instead of normal stereo sound)? You
> >know, some movies are broadcasted with dual sound - left channel of
> >stereo sound is used for one language and the right channel is used for
> >another language. Most often for translated/original sound. Is this
> >supported in MythTV? If it isn't, any idea how to add it most easily? It
> >basically requires to take just one channel and to send it as mono sound
> >out. And to allow user to switch between the channels (lang1/lang2)
> >would be a nice bonus.
> >  
> >
> In frontend settings:
> 
> Independent Muting of Left and Right Audio
> Enable muting of just the left or right channel.  Useful if your 
> broadcaster puts the original language on one channel, and a dubbed 
> version of the program on the other one.  This modifies the behavior of 
> the Mute key.

Sounds great, but as I said, it should also switch the output to mono
(both left and right speakers should get the same signal from the
selected channel/language) and most importantly, it should work
automagically.

Petr




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