5.1 Channel AAC Audio On MVP

[Taddeusz]

I've submitted a bug report on this.

In 6.3 it doesn't properly transcode 5.1 channel AAC audio to AC3 for the MVP. It attempts to but ends up scrambling all the channels.

I hope they look into it. I know the primary focus of this beta is probably HD extender support though.

[cathersal]

Hmm. I seem to still be having this problem with the latest version. Is it supposed to be fixed?

[Taddeusz]

No, this is still an issue. Use faad and eac3to to convert the audio to AC3.

[gplasky]

Or set your HD-PVR to record the audio in AC3 with the 1.053 drivers and the settings in Arcsoft TME.

Gerry

[cathersal]

I confirmed that I get 5.1 on the clear QAM recordings by opening up the Ac3 filter interface on zoom player. I can see all the separate channels moving up and down. But when I transcode to "MPEG4 Good Quality Deinterlaced", and watch the clip with zoom, I see that I am mostly getting the front left channel only.

Are you saying that if I encode the video with those drivers that the 5.1 will be retained in the converted avi?

Thanks

[gplasky]

I would think if the audio is originally AC3 it wouldn't have to transcode it at all.

Gerry

[Taddeusz]

yea, if there is a way you can convert it without doing the audio or converting the audio to stereo.

[cathersal]

Thats a good idea, but I am using the built-in sage 6.x convertor with the "auto-compress" plug-in and I don't see any options to control how the MPEG2 files get transcoded (i just get to choose which type and quality level I want to use)