Hi,

John Robinson schrieb:

Hi everyone. I've just joined this list and am totally blind. I can listen to Freeview TV and radio channels through my Nebula Electronics USB receiver and VDR, but would like to receive audio description as well. I've heard that VDR can do this, but I haven't been able to find any information on how to set it up. If anyone could advise me, I'd very much appreciate it.

I can only speak of the German TV channel "Bayerisches Fernsehen". They provide an additional audio track called "Audio description". For certain events e. g. most movies, this track provides audio description while it provides standard audio the other time, just like the other audio tracks do.

To choose a different audio track, just open VDR's audio track menu and select a different track. I cannot tell how you can do that in your setup, but there exists a certain key to open it.

Pressing the key again while the menu is open cycles to the next track. The menu disappears automatically after some seconds of inactivity.

Some other stations chose a different method to broadcast a pair of mono audio tracks as a single stereo audio track. I cannot tell if your setup supports this, but if you open VDR's audio menu and press the button to navigate left or right, you select either the left or the right track of the stereo channel and hence one of the two mono tracks.

In case you selected for example the left mono track, navigating to the right brings you back to stereo and a further move chooses the right track.

Besides mono and stereo audio tracks, there exist surround sound tracks. I cannot tell whether your setup supports replaying surround sound or is at least able to transform it into stereo, but for such tracks, selecting among the individual mono tracks is not supported.

Bye.