BBC HD - Audio Describing?

[logsvp]

I was watching "Bonekickers" on BBC HD on Tuesday and there was an additional "audio describing" audio commentary running which I was unable to disable. I was wondering if this is a feature that can be turned off. I am using the Network Encoder to access BBC HD via DBViewer and viewing it via an HD100 Extender.

has anyone else noticed this?

I thought I would check here first (as it is a UK channel) before posting a question in the hardware forum.

[Whitey]

I have the same setup and get this problem too on various channels. Some betas fix it but then it gets broken again. I use sageMC so I just press select and then scroll down to audio and select a different track, but like I said, it's broken in the current beta 6.4.4

Maybe the new beta 6.4.5 may have fixed it again

Whitey

[doc]

I noticed the audio button stopped working a couple of weekends ago. There's an options button on the remote ( i think thats what its called - its not in front of me ) and you can select that, and then select audio options from that menu, and change audio track.

I usually get the commentary on More4.

[rickgillyon]

I'm getting occasional silent recordings too, just SD dvb-t. May be the audio description just with not a lot happening. Very irritating, DisableMultiAudio used to fix it, but no longer...

[brewston]

Anyone tried changing the audio decoder in use ? thats what fixed my c4/e4/m4 audio problem - set it to ac3filter and its been fine since

[jaminben]

Not sure if this related to your problem or not, but the new 6.4.5 beta has a fix for this or some problem like this.

4. Fixed bug where the Audio button didn't switch audio tracks on the extender for MPEG files that were not DVDs.

[Whitey]

Originally Posted by jaminben

Not sure if this related to your problem or not, but the new 6.4.5 beta has a fix for this or some problem like this.

4. Fixed bug where the Audio button didn't switch audio tracks on the extender for MPEG files that were not DVDs.

That's what I'm hoping!

Whitey

[johnw]

I had the same issue a few weeks ago recording Dr Who on BBC3. I was using a dual Cinergy 2400i DVB-T card and viewing through Sage client. It was the commentary for the blind track that I was receiving overlaying the normal sound track and it's the only time that I have ever had, or even heard of, the problem. Is there a way that I can edit a properties file to stop this happening?

[rickgillyon]

Theoretically, making this registry change fixes that problem:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\DSFilters\TSSplitter]
"DisableMultiAudio"=dword:00000000

[logsvp]

I posed a question in the hardware forum and then discovered the answer myself

I didn't have this option set and now realise it was causing my problem:
I went into DVBViewer (native) and ticked 'Options | Recorder | All Audio Tracks' and then applied the change.

The latest firmware for the HD Extender has a fix to select different audio in Transport Stream files. Now with this latest firmware in the HD Extender, pressing the Audio button flips between the two audio tracks and I can now get Dolby 5.1

I am hoping this might resolve Audio Describing problem by now being able to select the AC3 audio channel.

[Whitey]

The latest beta has fixed this problem for me. I no longer get AD audio channels.

Whitey