Gal 16 99deg West

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David Holmes

Vu+ Newbie
A question, The Vu+Solo2 with BH 2.1.5 will not pick up the audio on Galaxy 16, 99 deg west transponder 3813 symbol rate 8029 3/4. Get the video real good but no sound. this also happens with other transponders as well. Is it my receiver programming or some thing else. Thanks
 
David Holmes said:
A question, The Vu+Solo2 with BH 2.1.5 will not pick up the audio on Galaxy 16, 99 deg west transponder 3813 symbol rate 8029 3/4. Get the video real good but no sound. this also happens with other transponders as well. Is it my receiver programming or some thing else. Thanks
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What kind of audio track is avaiable on the channel you try to tune?
 
The 3813 mux at 99 West is using Ac3 audio.

BlackHole images are a challenge for us in North America. Here are a few reasons why.

No system time settings.
BlackHole only allows the time to be set using transponder time. Transponder time is unreliable in North America.
BlackHole does not support C band blindscan.
BlackHole has AAC and Ac3 Audio issues on tv and radio channels.

I have been able to add a system time plugin to BlackHole images but it was not easy.
Adding a C band blindscan to BlackHole is simple, and very easy to do.
I have never found a solution for the audio issues in BlackHole.
 
el bandido said:
The 3813 mux at 99 West is using Ac3 audio.

BlackHole images are a challenge for us in North America. Here are a few reasons why.

No system time settings.
BlackHole only allows the time to be set using transponder time. Transponder time is unreliable in North America.
BlackHole does not support C band blindscan.
BlackHole has AAC and Ac3 Audio issues on tv and radio channels.

I have been able to add a system time plugin to BlackHole images but it was not easy.
Adding a C band blindscan to BlackHole is simple, and very easy to do.
I have never found a solution for the audio issues in BlackHole.
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I would like to talk about AAC and AC3 audio issues...
About AC3 you should enable Dolby Digital Downmix if you haven't a decoder. This should change all digital multichannel stream (DD and AC3) to dual channel PCM.
If this not work, probably into the box drivers and/or into Enigma2 there is someting that not work as expected.
 
I played with those settings then rescanned etc, video but no audio. Looking at the sat listings north and south America it seems only the higher ac3 numbers above 200 eng do not decode. Galaxy 16 transponder 3720 I get ac3 sound decoded, transponder 3813 no decoding.
 
el bandido said:
BlackHole images are a challenge for us in North America. Here are a few reasons why.

No system time settings.
BlackHole only allows the time to be set using transponder time. Transponder time is unreliable in North America.
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FYI: It is really easy to setup ntpd to automatically set the time.
 
System Time plugins can be made to work as mentioned in post#3. If you have a shortcut or easier way than the plugin, please post it.
 
What I have done is based on the following, but I haven't gotten it to start during boot:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Time_Protocol_daemon

The instructions for starting during boot-up don't seem to work correctly (wrong Linux?).

I have a chron job that runs at midnight to make sure that it is started. Once I write a better script for the chron job, I will post it here (to ensure that it doesn't start more than once). Easy to do, just not a priority right now. Note that this means you have to be comfortable using ssh and working in a Linux shell.

I don't know what the plug-in is doing, but if it is simply enabling NTP, then perhaps it is the way to go. I haven't looked at it yet.

Also, note my reply here:
http://www.vuplus-community.net/board/threads/network-time-protocol-ntp.27909/#post-212226
 
I find it much easier to use an image that has the features I want or need. There are ten or more images available for these receivers that are assembled by different groups. Some of these images are pretty much OpenSource which allows you to add or take features to a degree. I try to add what I want in an image by using plugins (.ipk) because it is usually easier. Python can be used to modify plugins and other parts of the images easily. I also enjoy having ATSC and 16APSK on my Vu+ receivers.... Your mileage may vary, depending on what you want to do.
 
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