[vdr] Re: Second Audio Channel?

["Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:52:15 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>> tonight, i saw a movie on BR3, "In and out". After a few minutes, i
>> noticed a strange voice, describing the scene as it could be seen by the
>> viewer (for example: man enters the room). I switched to cable tv and
>> back to sat, cable didn't have this voice (my vdr has 1sec delay, so i
>> could verify this). So i think this is kind of a second audio broadcast
>> for blind people.
>> 
>> Well, a nice feature for blind i think, but personally i would prefer a
>> recording without it. Do you know whether/where i could disable this
>> feature?
>
>Can you determine whether this second voice comes out of both stereo
>channels, or only from one of them? Maybe the tv station did something
>and broadcasted the second voice as the second stereo channel instead of
>an extra audio PID.

I had the same this week on a BR3 recording. This describing voice is
for the blind. It's not correctly seperated from the other channel. So
you can hear it on the left speaker as well. It's an old fashioned two
channel broadcast. On older TV you could switch between them.



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