[mythtv-users] Select best audio track by default

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Mon Jan 5 20:07:22 UTC 2015


On 05/01/15 17:48, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 05/01/15 15:02, Peter Carlsson wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Here in Sweden digital TV is often broadcasted with 5.1 audio.
>>
>> However, when I play a recording it is always in 2.0 and when I select
>> auto detection of best audio it always says it is upmixing to 5.1.
>>
>> The message implies that it is not selecting the actual 5.1 track, but
>> instead is upmixing 2.0 to 5.1, which is not what I want. I want it to
>> select the best available audio track by default.
>>
>> Is there something in my configuration that is wrong?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter Carlsson
>
> I've forgotten, or probably never knew, how the default audio track is
> selected, but you should be able to switch during playback using
> NEXTAUDIO, + by default, or perhaps SELECTAUDIO_0, SELECTAUDIO_1, no
> default, in Frontend setup > Edit Keys > TV Playback.  And there are
> scripts that will drop selected audio channels if you're prepared to
> 'transcode' first.
>
> I suppose there might be a frontend override setting...
>

Here's an explanation - 3 years old, but probably then definitive - that 
might help:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/468025#468025




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