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Audio drop-outs on AC3 3/2 + SPDIF?


daffy

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Hi,

 

it seems as if every once in a while audio will drop out for one "blip" under these circumstances:

 

* DVB-S stream with AC3 3/2 + SW 448 KBit/s (according to DVBSource 2.7.2)

* AC3Filter 1.02a test8

* SPDIF enabled

 

This is what AC3Filter emits on the "Main" properties page:

 

***********************

AC3

speakers: 3/2.1 (5.1)

sample rate: 48000Hz

bitrate: 448kbps

stream: 8 bit

frame size: 1792 bytes

nsamples: 1536

bsid: 6

clev: -3.0dB (0.7071)

slev: -3.0dB (0.7071)

dialnorm: -25dB

bandwidth: 14kHz/20kHz

***********************

 

AC3Filter does not display any errors on its frame counter

The DVBSource filter does not display any discontinuities

 

* SPDIF coax cable to a Pioneer VSX-D514 A/V receiver (5.1 capable)

 

The same kind of drop-out I hear with the NVIDIA Audio Codec in straight SPDIF pass-through mode.

 

Is my A/V receiver not able to handle the DVB-S audio stream? It does not seem to have problems with 5.1 audio from DVDs?

 

Any thoughts?

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it seems as if every once in a while audio will drop out for one "blip" under these circumstances:

 

Funny.

 

I am watching the live DVB-S broadcast, and get quite a few drop-outs.

 

Just by chance I have a .TS recording of just those few seconds where the drop-outs were present in the live stream.

 

And, guess what - the .TS recording seems to playback just fine, without drop-outs where present where they were in the live stream?

 

What could cause this kind of behaviour?! From what I can see, everything from the DVB-S and .TS stream gets to the A/V receiver just the same - so why don't I get reproducible behaviour?

 

Could the SPDIF out functionality of the mainboard have problems in the kernel (driver)?

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What is your DVBViewer Filter Latency value?

 

I tried settings from 150 ms up to 500 ms.

 

I also tried to crank up the "queued" settings - no effect.

 

In the meantime, I have installed ffdshow and am sending any other stream (e.g. ARD in AC3 2/0) onwards straight over SPDIF. I get similar glitches, occasionally. [*]

 

FWIW, I do not see any diagnostic messages (error or informational), anywhere. Odd, odd, odd.

 

[*] ffdshow seems to behave nicer with AC3 2/0 and SPDIF than AC3Filter.

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  • 7 months later...

Just found this topic and I have the same issue but thought it is a hardware problem.

 

Have you found any solutions in the past months?

 

All settings discussed here have also no influence.

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