[mythtvnz] Freeview Radio

[Nick Rout]

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



I suppose the first thing I should check is that I AM using the freeview
ones!
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