apple tv voice over audio problem
Hi all, I hope this is not out of bounds for this list. I have a 2nd generation Apple tv, which is the first one to have had voice over available. It is up to date. If I connect this apple tv to a tv via the hdmi cable, voice over sounds through the tv's crappy speakers as expected, and it is smooth, not choppy at all. If, however, I do one of the following 2 scenarios, voice over is choppy, with entire words often being missed. The words are always those at the beginning of an utterance. Thus, if I focus on the word movies, I might hear nothing, or I might just here the least hint of the last vowel and the s. If I focus on a movie or song title, sometimes, I hear the whole thing. Some times I get a piece of the last word. Here are the scenarios where this occurs. Connect the A tv to a tv via hdmi. Connect that same tv to a sound bar via the supplied optical digital cable, as per the instructions for the sound bar. Program audio through the sound bar is smooth and sounds good. Voice over exhibits the symptoms described above. Connect the apple tv to a tv with the hdmi cable. Connect digital optical cable from the apple tv to the optical digital input of an a/v receiver, which is connected to speakers in the room. Program audio is fine. voice over audio has the problems described above. So it seems that whenever the optical cable is involved, whether directly from the A tv or from the tv to a sound bar, voice over is not usable. I can't believe this is a widespread problem. Surely I'm not the only v/o user who has used a digital optical cable with an A tv. But I've done it with two different cables and with two different scenarios, so I'm somewhat reluctant to go plunk down 90 or a hundred bucks, just to find out there is an inherent flaw in the system, not just with my single apple tv. I can't believe all the audio loving blind folks who use these things have been satisfied listening to the programming through universally crappy speakers that are a part of flat screen tvs. Any advice here? Mary
RE: apple tv voice over audio problem
Mary, I'm not near my Apple TV right now, but if I'm not mistaken, there's an audio setting in the settings menu somewhere. I believe that by default it is set to auto. What happens if you set it to the optical out instead of auto? Best regards, Rick Alfaro -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 12:42 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: apple tv voice over audio problem Hi all, I hope this is not out of bounds for this list. I have a 2nd generation Apple tv, which is the first one to have had voice over available. It is up to date. If I connect this apple tv to a tv via the hdmi cable, voice over sounds through the tv's crappy speakers as expected, and it is smooth, not choppy at all. If, however, I do one of the following 2 scenarios, voice over is choppy, with entire words often being missed. The words are always those at the beginning of an utterance. Thus, if I focus on the word movies, I might hear nothing, or I might just here the least hint of the last vowel and the s. If I focus on a movie or song title, sometimes, I hear the whole thing. Some times I get a piece of the last word. Here are the scenarios where this occurs. Connect the A tv to a tv via hdmi. Connect that same tv to a sound bar via the supplied optical digital cable, as per the instructions for the sound bar. Program audio through the sound bar is smooth and sounds good. Voice over exhibits the symptoms described above. Connect the apple tv to a tv with the hdmi cable. Connect digital optical cable from the apple tv to the optical digital input of an a/v receiver, which is connected to speakers in the room. Program audio is fine. voice over audio has the problems described above. So it seems that whenever the optical cable is involved, whether directly from the A tv or from the tv to a sound bar, voice over is not usable. I can't believe this is a widespread problem. Surely I'm not the only v/o user who has used a digital optical cable with an A tv. But I've done it with two different cables and with two different scenarios, so I'm somewhat reluctant to go plunk down 90 or a hundred bucks, just to find out there is an inherent flaw in the system, not just with my single apple tv. I can't believe all the audio loving blind folks who use these things have been satisfied listening to the programming through universally crappy speakers that are a part of flat screen tvs. Any advice here? Mary
RE: apple tv voice over audio problem
Hi Rick, There is a cable person installing cable now, but I will certainly look for that setting. You think it should matter, even if, in the current scenario, the digital optical cable runs from the tv to the sound bar, not from the apple tv to anything? I could certainly see how this could affect a set up where the digital optical out on the A tv was running to my a/v receiver. But why should it affect things when using the sound bar set up? In any case, I'm going to try it when the cable person leaves, but it seems weird. Mary
RE: apple tv voice over audio problem
Somebody on another list suggested using the analog out on the tv to the analog in on my sound bar to avoid this latency issue with the digital optical cable from sound bar to tv. apple tv isn't the only thing running into the tv. My husband has a blue ray, and we will have cable. I have no idea if using the analog to analog would have an impact on things other than possibly clearing up the v/o issue. Thoughts? The sound bar is a Klipsch rb10. Mary
RE: apple tv voice over audio problem
Well, I did look for something useful for audio in settings, but the only thing there was auto or 16 bit. So we just connected an analog stereo cable from the analog out on the tv to analog in on the sound bar. And the v/o problem is solved. Somebody suggested that the latency problem is fixed in 3rd gen apple tvs, but somebody else said no, so who knows? I don't know what the differences are between the two generations, so will probably just stick with this for now. Mary
beginners help with youtube?
i have really never taken much interest in youtube but wonder if there is any way of reasonably accessably searching an then downloading from it? Thanks.
Re: beginners help with youtube?
Hi You can't really download from Youtube itself, it's mainly meant for watching videos, creating playlists and sharing them with social media. If you want to download the audio from it there are a few websites out there that'll do this. One is http://www.youtube-mp3.org it's a very simple site with an edit box for the link for the youtube video you want to download, a convert button and a few other basic links. It's very fast, but the limitation is that it only converts videos that are less than 20 minutes long. If you want something longer than that, yes there are videos that are quite lengthy on youtube, the site you'll want to try is http://www.ListenToYoutube.com One important caviot about this site is that it sometimes likes to throw up a popup window that completely covers up the website, so to get rid of this, simply press control plus f4 and the popup window will close, but the website will stay open. After it's converted your video, it'll have a link that says click here to get your download link, that's when the popup window might happen. But on the resulting ppage, you'll find a button that says, click hhere to download. it's a button so just keep that in mind. I hope some of this helps. On 12/23/2014 5:02 PM, Dave McElroy wrote: i have really never taken much interest in youtube but wonder if there is any way of reasonably accessably searching an then downloading from it? Thanks.
RE: apple tv voice over audio problem
Ahhh, sorry missed that part. Knowing that I'd say it probably has no affect but I'd give it a shot anyhow. Wouldn't hurt. If it was running to the AV receiver I'd say try game mode if your receiver had one but in the case of a sound bar, I'm at a loss. Best regards, Rick Alfaro -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:17 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: apple tv voice over audio problem Hi Rick, There is a cable person installing cable now, but I will certainly look for that setting. You think it should matter, even if, in the current scenario, the digital optical cable runs from the tv to the sound bar, not from the apple tv to anything? I could certainly see how this could affect a set up where the digital optical out on the A tv was running to my a/v receiver. But why should it affect things when using the sound bar set up? In any case, I'm going to try it when the cable person leaves, but it seems weird. Mary
Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC?
How does apple's aac compare to mp3? - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura numb...@noisynotes.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:40 AM Subject: Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC? I had OPlayer on an Android tablet once and it was pretty darn neat. Didn't know it was available for iOS. Re VLC, it's a fine product, but its accessibility leaves more than a little to be desired, in my unhumble opinion. On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:46:07 +1100, you wrote: You're not mistaken and that's just one App of at least half a dozen I can think of, I haven't played around with VLC lately so must have a look and see what improvements or changes have been made. Another of my favourite players for IOS is something called oPlayer which is available in 2 versions, the free Light and the HD purchased version. Speaking of VLC, if you're a Windows user then you're in for a real treat with this player, I use it both on Mac and Windows. On 8 Oct 2014, at 8:36 am, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Vlc for Iphone supports flac if i'm not misstaken. Its also quite easy to use with voiceover. /A ** Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning start?
