Has anyone noticed if the audio dropout issue is resolved with this release? I have experienced this problem on my local HD channels but am still on 5.11.
Nope. I still am having audio dropout problems. Especially with the Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO when delayed or recorded. The 11 o'clock news is bad every night. But the trick play problems are few and far between. Much, much better!moman19 said:Has anyone noticed if the audio dropout issue is resolved with this release? I have experienced this problem on my local HD channels but am still on 5.11.
A long time (i.e. well over a year or so) ago the audio issues with KOMO were their fault but I think the last round of issues is something else. I know that during the end of the TV season in May I would have problems with KOMO HD events recorded via the DishHD station but the same event via my OTA version of KOMO HD would play fine. I haven't really watched anything delayed/DVR on KOMO HD since Lost ended. I'll have to take another look.Ron Barry said:I am pretty sure the Komo problems is a source related issue based on some of the other posts I have read.. I am sure Rob will bonk me on the head if that is not true... Scott.. Do you have any other receiver to compare?
Ditto. I got 5.12 last night on both DVRs. I can confirm that Trick Play now works better but the audio dropouts are still there. I see this mostly on recorded local Fox and ABC channels. In addition, I am now seeing intermittent (perhaps once every 2 minutes) brief image breakups on NBC with sudden camera or scene changes. This is most apparent during Prime Time and Leno. This issue was evident about a year ago but fixed with or before 4.49. It came back with 5.11 and is still apparent with 5.12.Scott Spillers said:........ I still am having audio dropout problems. Especially with the Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO when delayed or recorded. The 11 o'clock news is bad every night. But the trick play problems are few and far between. Much, much better!
I have experienced the following:Rob Glasser said:So I recorded and watched the 11:00pm news on KOMO HD, delayed, and didn't see any dropouts. I didn't watch the whole thing but spot checked it throughout the broadcast. If there is a certain show, or maybe just national HD content, that is showing this let me know and I'll setup timers to try and test.
Just a thought but both of those networks broadcast in 720Pmoman19 said:I have experienced the following:
Occasional audio dropouts apparent on recorded episodes of House from this past season on Fox. (I'm still catching up) If I skip back, the dropout will be gone. Also, recorded episodes of Nightline on ABC can sometimes sound garbled, as if speaking under water throughout the show.
Rob,Rob Glasser said:A long time (i.e. well over a year or so) ago the audio issues with KOMO were their fault but I think the last round of issues is something else. I know that during the end of the TV season in May I would have problems with KOMO HD events recorded via the DishHD station but the same event via my OTA version of KOMO HD would play fine. I haven't really watched anything delayed/DVR on KOMO HD since Lost ended. I'll have to take another look.
I'll try and check out the news cast tonight.
I fail to see the correlation. Digital data is just that, digital data. Ones and zeroes, whether 480i, 720p or 1080i, just ones and zeroes. Why would the codec pick on one bitstream and not another, and why just the audio? We see the same problem here and it's hitting the 1080i channels as well as 720p. Sounds like momentary burpsTulsa1 said:Just a thought but both of those networks broadcast in 720P
My DVR got 5.12 yesterday afternoon. I hoped this would fix the major audio issue clearly introduced by 5.11. On my ViP622, all worked fine until 5.11 was installed, regardless of the software version.Dr. Cool said:Confirmed: I'm yet having audio dropouts with OTA local channels even after the update to 5.12, including PBS which is 1080i. Not with live programming, only with recorded or delayed shows. If I rewind after a dropout, it doesn't repeat itself. Meaning that: (1) it's not a problem with my receiver (otherwise it would happen with live shows too) (2) it's not a problem with my TOSLINK cable (otherwise it would happen with all other channels and in all modes) (3) it's not a broadcast signal problem (otherwise it would repeat itself after rewinding and it would happen when watching live programming) (4) it's caused by a DVR bug (only logical explanation). I also suspect that the audio dropouts do not happen with the analog outputs, only with the optical/Dolby Digital output, although I need to test that yet. Furthermore, the problem started with FW 5.11, since I'm 100% sure that the problem didn't exist with 4.49 and previous FWs. Audio was flawless until about one month ago. Finally, it doesn't look like the stream of data is interrupted -- my receiver has speaker relays that "click" when there is an interruption due to signal loss or cable disconnection. These dropouts happen without producing the clicks or changes in the stream status panel, so it looks more like the sound is muted at the 622 or there is a mismatch between audio and video streams that leads to lack of sound during the audio glitches, without affecting the continuity of the streams.
Very strange indeed. I wonder why these inconsistencies. Now we know it is not only the local feed affected, the national (or West Coast) may be affected as well.moman19 said:It must be hit & miss because I was watching the same show (So you think you can dance) and the audio dropouts were all over the place. Interestingly, it was frequent and most obvious immediately after the commercial breaks that I zipped through.
I was viewing it time-shifted on the sat HD channel, not OTA.
Join the club, Mr. Geek! This seems most obvious on OTA channels. Not sure E* has even acknowledged there is a problem.Patent geek said:Re audio drop out issues, I was just watching a DVR'ed episode of the Simpsons (syndicated by my local Fox affiliate) and was noticing frequent audio glitches. In almost every case, the audio didn't drop out entirely, but was significantly garbled/distorted to the point of being unintelligible for several seconds. Roughly analogous to the loss in quality/bandwidth loss you hear on a cell phone right at the fringe of reception.