On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Al McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Sander Sweers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:35, Al McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I suspect the audio jack on my pvr-250 is physically damaged as the plug >> > appears to have bent, the jack goes in on an angle now. I use mythtv to >> > record and for play back the audio is passed through spdif to my >> receiver >> > and I only have sound in my center channel, no side or rear channels. I >> was >> > hoping to bypass the audio line in on my pvr-250 to possibly verify my >> > theory. >> >> The jack is only for INPUT and you are describing OUTPUT. Normally if >> you record from a the tuner the INPUT jack is not used. Only when you >> use something like s-video you would use the input jack on the back. >> How are you recording? >> > > > I feel the problem is with the input... Sorry for the confusion. Yes I > record video from SVIDEO IN and for audio I have the 2 RCA cables merged > together using an RCA to phono adapter plugged into the tuners audio in. I > could try recording from coaxial cable to see if the resulting encoded audio > plays back properly. I can try this tonight when I get home. > > I suppose there is a possibility that the audio is encoded properly in the > mpg file, but is mangled by a mythtv audio setting before being passed > through spdif causing the sound to only come through my center channel. > > DVDs sound amazing so I assumed there was a problem with my audio input as > it looked physically damaged. > I set the input to "tuner 1" and ran `mplayer /dev/video0` the audio output from coaxial did playback through my side and rear channels. It's not perfect it's slightly distorted compared to the audio when watching straight TV. Thanks Sander, the converstaion was actually helpful.
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