[vdr] Re: Questions from new VDR user

["Otto J. Makela" <om@iki.fi>]

Ulrich Petri wrote:
> Otto J. Makela wrote:
> > There are a couple of channels (like Cartoon Network, don't
> > laugh!) which are transmitted by the cable company as a strange mess

I now checked, I misremembered the details. CN comes labeled as two
soundtracks: english and swedish, with the "english" being mono
english on the left side, mono danish on the right side, and the
"swedish" with mono swedish on left, mono norwegian on right.

> > Can I adjust this, or should I lobby the cable company to get this
> > "feature" fixed?
> 
> You should slap your cable company. What they do is the "good old(tm)"
> version of multichannel sound.
> This has nothing in common with multiple sound channels as they are
> defined for DVB.

I called the HTV cable company, and they claimed that the reason they
do this is that many DVB-C desktop receivers can't handle more than
two audio channels total, though the spec says that two stereo or four
mono channels should be supported.

Anyone know if this is correct, or were they just BSing me?

> IIRC there was a discussion about this some time ago on this list
> (you can find archives on linuxtv.org).

I couldn't find these messages in the archives, does anyone have good
keyword ideas?
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