Sebastian wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >>Sebastian wrote: >> >> >>>Hi Klaus! >>> >>>I would like to echo my wish concerning AC3 handling in vdr-1.3.x and >>>up. I'd like to have the possibility to choose about using AC3 or not >>>seperately. >>>I would like to have ac3 in my recordings (for dvd burning) but I don't >>>want (can't) use ac3 on VDR on playback. I route the audio from the DVB >>>over spdif to my soundcard. soundcard gives the audio over analog out to >>>my stereo. Everytime ac3 hits the soundcard I get crackles in my >>>speakers. >> >> >>Then why do you turn on an AC3 track in the first place? >>Just don't select it and everything should be fine. >>Or am I missing something here? >> >>Klaus >> > > Hi Klaus! > > When I turn of AC3 playback is fine. But then of course I don't get ac3 > in my recordings. :) > > I can of course manually switch ac3 on before a recording and switch it > off before playing a dvd, but it's inconveniant. And sometimes I forget > to turn on ac3 before a recording and then I'm annoyed that I don't have > the ac3 stream when I want to burn the recording on DVD. > > Cheers > > Sebastian I'm afraid I still don't see where your problem is. If you turn on Dolby Digital in the setup, all your recordings will contain AC3 (if broadcast). All you need to do is _not_ select a Dolby Digital track from the audio track menu when replaying or watching live tv. Klaus