[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18 to 0.20, now no audio out of PVR-350 for DVB sources.

[mythtv-users]

> David wrote:
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>> all my recordings
>> from my DVB card (Nova-T) play their audio through the soundcard rather
>> than through the PVR-350, the PVR-350 recorded stuff works fine.
>> Audio _is_ working for the DVB recorded stuff, just through the
>> soundcard, not the PVR-350.
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>> I'm probably missing something really stupid but I can't for the life of
>> me find out what, can anyone help?
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> sorry that i am not able to help you on this, but i do want to ask...

Oh no, no appologies needed, you *did* help, by kicking my thought
processes down another path. Like most problems it's knowing the right
questions to ask, I spent ages looking for a solution and got nowhere.

> how did you manage to get the tv sound through the pvr-350 and all the
> other sound through the soundcard?  i have ripped dvds to a server in
> the basement and would like to play those with the soundcard, but use
> the pvr-350 to play regular tv.  it seems though, with myth-0.20, that
> if i say "use pvr-350 hardware decoding" it puts all output that is
> mpeg2 (including my dvds) through the pvr-350.

TBH I play DVD's through a standalone player and not attempted to play
them through mythtv, I just use the audio out for playing videos and
music.

Hmmm, this did give me an idea though, some looking later and I have more
of an idea, files recorded on the 'old' mythtv-0.18 are either

# file 1004_20060902041000_20060902051100.nuv
1004_20060902041000_20060902051100.nuv: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

or

# file 104_20060724000000_20060724010500.nuv
104_20060724000000_20060724010500.nuv: MPEG sequence

whereas files under mythtv-0.20 are either:

# file test1
test1: TeX font metric data
(\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377)
# file test2
test2: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

Soooo, that's not MPEG, at a guess a transport stream, hmmm Transport
Stream eh, so more searching finally lead to
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/222

Which says that TS->PS was turned off for mythtv-0.19 (which I skipped)
which then lead to
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/152464

So the answer is simply to transcode or use a pass-through cable.

David