On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:07:12PM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: > > --- Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No dialog is probably a local problem, it happens > > fairly often. This > > occurs when you have ac-3 sound and myth or your > > sound drivers are > > confused and don't merge the center channel into > > your right and left. > > > > (If you got no dialog and you are driving a center > > speaker, then it's their > > fault.) > > > > You need to play around with random settings in your > > alsamixer to fix this. > > While "no dialog" may have local causes at times, it > DOES happen as a result of mistakes at the transmitter > end, too. The last couple of episodes of CSI (LV) > have begun with no dialog for the first 3-5 minutes. > Then someone at the station flips a switch and the > dialog magically appears. This affects only the HDTV > transmission, the analog broadcast is unchanged. > > Then there's the local PBS station, KQED. Since I > installed 0.17 the sound for KQED has stopped > completely. I discovered that Myth is choosing the > wrong sound channel by default, and that I can get > KQED sound to work by pressing "+" on the keyboard to > choose a different sound stream. > > I assume, like other 0.17 problems, this has been > fixed in CVS but will not be added to the 0.17 > "release."
Nope. I have a patch you can find on myth-dev for the kqed problem, but people won't accept it because on DVDs it might make a different choice than it does now. People are waiting to gather more data about multi-stream stations. I wonder though, if during that "no dialog" period, you still get it from the center channel of ac-3? I don't have my ac-3 hooked up yet. I mean the only reason you would be able to get background and no dialog is if the program is coming in ac-3 and the center channel is missing, either strangely at the station or at your end.
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