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Forums › Freeview (DVB-T/DVB-S) › TV3 seems to be broadcasting AC-3 all the time (2.0 and 5.1)


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When I canned the airwaves using a Hauppauge HVR-900H USB tuner, I found a channel called TV3 (AC-3).

From my testing so far it appears that the TV3 signal has AC-3 audio on all the time, usually 2.0 but 5.1 for those shows which are also in HD.

I am using a PCH to view the broadcasts. If I try to view TV1 say, there is no audio which I can understand given they are likely to be using AAC-HE LATM.

Just wondering why TV3 has chosen to broadcast AC-3 audio all the time (not that I am complaining!)




System One: Popcorn Hour A200,  PS3 SuperSlim, NPVR and Plex Server running on Gigabyte Brix (Windows 10 Pro), Sony BDP-S390 BD player, Pioneer AVR, Raspberry Pi running Kodi and Plex, Panasonic 60" 3D plasma, Google Chromecast

System Two: Popcorn Hour A200 ,  Oppo BDP-80 BluRay Player with hardware mode to be region free, Vivitek HD1080P 1080P DLP projector with 100" screen. Harman Kardon HK AVR 254 7.1 receiver, Samsung 4K player, Google Chromecast

 


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  Reply # 144590 8-Jul-2008 13:44
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Its probably easier switching the 2.0 stream to 5.1 instead of turning it on and off.

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  Reply # 144659 8-Jul-2008 14:46
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Bit of a thread about ac-3 here.

 
 
 
 




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  Reply # 144707 8-Jul-2008 15:35
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Fossie: Bit of a thread about ac-3 here.


Yes did see that. But it went OT in the last couple of pages!

Interestingly when I playback the captured files from TV3 on my PCH, it identifies the audio as DTS!  But on my AVR the DD light comes on. For those HD shows (e.g. Bones last night) I get 5.1 audio I think so that's good.




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System Two: Popcorn Hour A200 ,  Oppo BDP-80 BluRay Player with hardware mode to be region free, Vivitek HD1080P 1080P DLP projector with 100" screen. Harman Kardon HK AVR 254 7.1 receiver, Samsung 4K player, Google Chromecast

 


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