[mythtv-users] Cant distinguish between foreground and background sound

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/20/2008 01:35 PM, MythTV wrote:
> In the past few days, the foreground and background sound on my  
> MythTV system has gotten really bad.  Specifically, Eli Stone and  
> Desperate Housewives, have a lot of background or ambient sounds.   
> Typically it is music but sometimes it is birds chirping, cars  
> passing, whatever they put in the background make the scene seem more  
> real.  Normally, the character's voices are louder than the  
> background sound thus allowing us to hear the show dialog.

That is almost always due to broadcast errors.  (I.e. not signal issues, 
but the broadcaster/re-broadcaster sent out garbage.)

Mike