[mythtv-users] Missing E-AC3 audio in DVB-T channel

[John Pilkington]

On 16/01/13 11:33, Diego Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm facing a problem in my mythTV setup.
> I'm running a FE/BE on ubuntu 12.10 64bits (kernel 3.5.0-22), taking
> mythtv 0.26 from mythbuntu repos. Computer is updated.
> I have a Hauppage WinTV Nova-T 500 dual DVB-T tuner working fine for
> most channels, but one. AMD Athlon II 260, 4 GB RAM, nVidia graphics
> card using privative driver.
>
> There is one channel (TVE-HD) broadcasting video in 720p h.264, and
> audio in E-AC3 (Dolby Digital+). I can watch it ok, but there is no
> sound. If I record any show in that channel, the file has no audio stream.
>
> Menu in live TV shows no audio option. Every other channel (broadcasted
> in MPEG/MP2 despite being SD or HD) is fine.
>
> dmesg shows "dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to
> the software demuxer." so there should be audio, right?
>
> Anyone knows if's it a problem with my DVB-T tuner (hardware not being
> able to receive E-AC3 audio), Video4linux modules in kernel (dib0700,
> dvb-usb...) or mythtv's fault?
>
> Any help welcome.
>

Missing codec?  mythffmpeg -i <filename>, or mediainfo might help.