<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Ellis</b> <<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Tue, November 6, 2007 2:01 pm, Nick Rout wrote:<br>> On 11/2/07, Dean Pemberton <<a href="mailto:dean@deanpemberton.com">dean@deanpemberton.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Nope - but it's not just you.
<br>>><br>>> I get the same thing.<br>>><br>>> Sometimes if I wait a while I can get VERY choppy sound coming through..<br>>><br>>><br>>> Dean<br>><br>><br>><br>> Something is weird here. I now have the backend/frontend combination as
<br>> well<br>> as a new frontend on knoppmyth r5f27. I also have a frontend on my desktop<br>> which is whatever was available on gentoo at the time of compiling it (<br>> 0.20-something).<br>><br>> The BE/FE combo is attached to the main TV and sound system, and I can't
<br>> hear anything from the radio stations.<br>><br>> The FE's can both hear the freeview stations, streamed from the BE/FE<br>> computer.<br>><br>> The major difference soundwise is that the BE/FE combo has SPDIF out,
<br>> which<br>> plays every TV channel and video file, but I am guessing it somehow<br>> doesn't<br>> like the audio from National Radio/Concert Programme.<br>><br>> The same can be said about playing recorded radio programmes, although
<br>> they<br>> WILL play via mplayer on the BE/FE combo using spdif out.<br><br>Sky's versions of the radio channels use 32KHz Audio which a lot of amps<br>don't support over SPDIF. I have the same problem.
<br><br>The freeview versions of National and Concert should work though.<br><br>There are a couple of threads on DVB-S radio issues. Generally I find live<br>radio is choppy, but recorded radio is fine.<br><br>Steve</blockquote>
<div><br><br>I suppose the first thing I should check is that I AM using the freeview ones!<br> </div></div>