Audio Issues

[lcurrie]

Hi All,

I've bought and installed SageTV on an XP Box and am having some audio issues during playback.

This is what I know:

• Files are fine, I can stream them over a local wireless network and play them on my Mac using VLC with no issues.
• When I play them through SageTV the sound volume goes up and down. It never completely disappears, the volume just seems to fluctuate sometimes.
• I've also seen where the soundtrack volume is really loud, but I can't hear the people talking over it.
• I've installed the BeyondTV trial and don't have any of these issues.

Here are some details on my system:

• I'm running XP Pro
• Hauppage WinTV HVR 1600
• ATI Function Driver for HiDef Audio - ATI791A
• AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 4800+
• ATI Radeon X1250
• 2.5 GHz
• 1.87 GB Ram

Any thoughts on what I should tweak?

Thanks,

Lynn

[EDUB]

I've had the same problem. Taking another look at Sage lately.
Using the 1600HVR. Live is fine but playback of recorded shows has the music/soundtrack way louder than the dialog.

I'm have the server output to the TV via HDMI on my video card and just OTA channels into the 1600.

I've changed some audio settings after the fact so I'm going to test different audio settings for recorded shows, since it didn't make a difference.

AC3filter was on and I think default sage.

[lcurrie]

I'd love to know if you figure this out. These problems make Sage a no-go for me. I'm sure they're solvable. I just don't know how.

[EDUB]

This seems to be just the HD channels.
I've tried this card: http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...k0W&templete=2

and I've tried another nVidia card with just the audio output channels. (Sigmatel driver). No combination of codecs seems to work.

Instead of HDMI output to the TV, I'm going to use straight PC input VGA on the TV just to test.

[Clift]

Have you gone into your sound settings on the PC and set the speakers as 2 channel? Maybe the HDMI is outputting incorrectly. Also, go into the sageTV folder (C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV) and open up ac3filter.exe and set that to 2 channel. That may be your problem. AC3 filter is probably outputting the HD channels as 5.1 and since your TV doesn;t have a center channel, you;ve got no dedicated speaker for "voice" so it sounds muffled/low.

[EDUB]

I didn't know about that .EXE !
This worked. I switched it to 2-Channel stereo and adjusted the gains..works great.
Ya ya, I'm buying a new 5.1 receiver as soon as I run the wires.

WinTV 7 worked fine so I figured it had to be in Sage somewhere.

Thanks a bunch. Smart thinking.

[lcurrie]

Clift,

Worked for me as well.

Thanks for the info!

Also, I check out your HDMI over ethernet article. Great job on that one!

Lynn

[Clift]

Thanks. Glad everything worked out. Welcome to the sageTV forums, both of you.

[Martoon]

Just wanted to post another "thanks" here. I was having similar issues, and ac3config.exe took care of it. I changed the output format from 'AS IS (no change)' to '2/0 - stereo', and I can finally hear dialog on DVDs. Tweaking some of the gains helped, too.