Guest asrequested Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 It should be the same, no? If live TV gets probed after it starts, couldn't you use this as course correction? The recording he gave me to test, is an identical stream. For the recording we can manually change the audio and be fine. But with a live TV stream, we can't. So I was suggesting to implement this for live TV, only. Not possible? I know it's a bit of a workaround, but at least it should play. The ultimate solution would be to disregard any stream that doesn't have a header, as that is the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshaf 4 Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) Wow, great work @ and @@Luke. Sounds like you're making great progress on finding a solution. Do you need me to test any of these proposals? Edited January 27, 2018 by bshaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Luke would need to look into it, if he is considering it. As the stream gets probed after it begins, any adjustments would happen after it starts. Which isn't ideal. Having said that, this is very uncommon, so it may be acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshaf 4 Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Understood. @@Luke - What are your thoughts on this? It would be nice to be able to watch this channel again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshaf 4 Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 Going back to @ comment about the root cause of the problem: "It's definitely that MP2 audio. It won't play it without the header. When I remux it, and move it after the video track but before the AC3, Theater skips over it and plays the AC3. But what really needs to happen is that it should be ignored." Does this imply that the issue should really be fixed in the HDHomeRun Prime tuner? Is the tuner just not populating the correct header for the audio steam? Or maybe the issue is coming from the source (Frontier cable in my case). Should the tuner remove this steam if it doesn't have a header? I ask because the silicon dust app doesn't produce any audio when i tune to this channel so i'm starting to think that maybe the issue should be resolved in the tuner instead of each app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I would think it's how the stream is created, meaning it comes like that from the source. Other than the provider changing it, I think the only other option is some software jiggery pokery. Possibly a firmware adjustment in the HDHR? You could try reporting it to Silicone Dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshaf 4 Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 I posted on the silicon dust forum and passed them a sample recording. Nickk came back with the below response. He didn't mention anything about the header, but did say the first audio track contained silence. @ is that what you found too? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the file - I was able to reproduce the problem.The channel has 3 audio tracks in the following order:1st = MPEG audio, contains silence.2nd = AC3 audio, 5.1 ch, labeled as English, contains audio.3rd = AC3 audio, 2 ch, labeled as Spanish, contains audio.There does not appear to be any ordering information so the HDHomeRun player picks the 1st track resulting in silence.The next issue is when you press the SAP button to switch to the 2nd track the Windows 10 version of the HDHomeRun app is unable to change codecs so you don't get audio even after switching.This problem will take some more investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 That's interesting. I didn't actually analyze the audio stream. I was focusing on getting around it. It would seem it's a phantom track. It looks like they are trying to find their own way around it, in their player. That unfortunately won't help in emby, unless they find away around it in the firmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 @@bshaf Here's something that might work in Theater desktop. Add this line to your mpv.conf where you set up the logging. alang=eng,en,enUS,en-US,English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 No, I don't think it will work. Try it, anyway, but I think theater is overriding it. I just tried it with spanish, and it still played english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Luke, there is an option use what ffprobe, finds. https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-ff-vid It's deprecated, but should be able to be use with lavfi wrapper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I can't get the standalone to follow that. I'll mess with it some more, tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Luke as restored the audio channel selection in Theater. Give that a try. I'm interested to see if that'll work in your situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshaf 4 Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 No luck. After i select the channel i attempted to switch to the Dolby 5.1 stream (by clicking the music note at the bottom), but there is no audio (same with the spa Dolby stereo stream). I basically get the same results as described in the first post (ie no audio, followed by the app crashing after about 5 seconds). Good idea though. Keep the suggestions coming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 OH! @@Luke, the channel selection doesn't work. I just tried it and it doesn't actually switch the audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37232 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Tested recently, works fine here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshaf 4 Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Ok, this just in. I noticed that the windows store emby app just updated so i tried playing the channel there and it appears to be playing just fine on the default audio stream (MP2). I even tried changing to the Dolby 5.1 stream and that appears to work too. So i think the issue is now only in the desktop app. Should i consider switching to the windows store version as my default? In my experience the windows store app appears to require transcoding on any video i throw at it (ie, live tv, movies, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Yeah, I tested in the store app, and it works there. I cannot get it to work in the desktop app. I'm still testing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Nothing I've tried makes a difference. I thought maybe a conflict of settings, but with everything at default, no change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 OK, so I can use 'aid=' in the mpv.conf for the standalone, and it works. But the setting in theater isn't working for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 The weird thing I've discovered, is the second audio track mpv is reporting it as spanish, but it's narration for the visually impaired.Not sure anything can be done about that. I would think that provider is labeling it that way. I only mention it because I was expecting hear spanish when I was testing, so I was mistaken when I initially tested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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