Would anyone like to assist me in debugging an AC-3 audio problem?
I've been struggling for weeks to figure out why movies with AC-3 audio having a bitrate > 480 Kbps have no sound on my home theater setup. The same movies play fine on my Mac, which I presume is because of the Perian plug-in.
I have two theories, 1) The Apple TV is somehow choking on audio bitrate > 480 Kbps (even though AC-3 audio is pass-through), 2) My own A/V receiver can't handle the bitrate. My gut feeling is that it's my A/V receiver... but that's just a guess.
I'm hoping someone here on the forums will help me out. I've uploaded to rapidshare a 1-minute clip that has H.264 video and AC-3 audio at 640 Kbps. The video plays fine on my setup but I get no audio. If you have an Apple TV connected to an A/V receiver using optical connection (not HDMI) and are willing to download and test this file, please let me know. I'll post the link to the file.
I talked with Apple support on the phone and the guy was VERY helpful and courteous. His answer was that the Dolby Digital (AC-3) specification limited the bitrate to 480 Kbps. I took his word for it but did some research on my only only to discover that the AC-3 limits audio to 640 Kbps:
DVD - 480 Kbps
HD DVD - 505 Kbps
Blu-ray - 640 Kbps
Let me know if you'd like to help me get this figured out. I'm sure they're are plenty of people out there that would like to know if the Apple TV has a problem with AC-3 audio.
It may very well be that the Apple TV is limited to the DVD standard... I just wish someone at Apple could confirm that fact. The Apple TV specifications identify bitrate limits for other audio types, but not AC-3.
And yes, I do have 5.1 turned on. I have several HD movies that have been converted to H.264 / AC-3 with 448 Kbps that play fine on my Apple TV setup.
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Would anyone like to help me with my difficult MBP decision?
Hello!
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Message was edited by: Verizon ModeratorAre you using the Apple Hardware RAID card? If so, be aware that it has a firmware bug in that it fails to fully flush the write cache under some circumstances during a graceful power down (doesn't happen on restart) because the card disconnects from the drives before the write caches have been fully flushed. LSI Logic (the Apple card is a rebranded LSI Logic megaraid card) fixed this bug in a firmware release after Apple split from the LSI Logic code tree with its own firmware for the Xserve. I turned in a RADAR report (# 4350243) back in November 2005, still open. Only known workaround is to turn the write cache off for all LUNs. Doubt it will ever be fixed because the Xserve G5 and the Apple Hardware RAID card are EOL.
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for cryptic details use the man command
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
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file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/oddadocodd"
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creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
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Has anyone used Migration Assistant to move services from one system running Server to a new system?
So, I've purchased a Mac mini to replace my aging Mid 2009 mini on which I've been running Mavericks Server. In trying to answer the question of how best to move services from the old machine to the new, I've stumbled into the fact that Migration Assistant can apparently migrate not just user data for workstations and laptops, but also service data for servers. The problem is there isn't much detail in the docs about how good a job it does when going from one machine to another without changing OS releases. There's a very detailed document in the KB about going from older versions of Server to new (OS X Server: Upgrade and migration from Lion Server or Snow Leopard Server) and a general doc on migrating from another Mac under Mavericks (OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks) but that has no details about Server.
Has anyone used Migration Assistant to move services from one system running Server to a new system? Are there any details that are particularly important to get right? Are there things that require manual steps after Migration Assistant is done?
There are other ways I could tackle the problem, of course. I could simply swap drives between the systems, but the new system has two drives that are bigger, faster, and I intend to mirror them. That would complicate such an approach. I'd really like to keep the conversation constrained to a discussion of Migration Assistant as the primary method.yes. I migrated a server frm lion to mavericks following these notes a while back:
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I'm really dumbfounded on this one and it's driving me bonkers!!!! On some of my music files there is a ! in front of it, if I try to play the song, I get an error message; "The song "_____" could not be used, because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
This began to happen when Chuck made playlists2burn on2CD-and then he would delete the playlist; sending all the song files into oblivion. Certain songs have a ! right next to the file name, and as I stated before, i get that error message:
"The song "_____" could not be used, because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
So I click on "Locate". No help. I get a menu with folders that say "catroot" and other folders which names I cannot remember, but I scroll PAST the file folders, & it's just a bunch of ".DLL" files.....I don't understand what any of the names of the folders mean...it's frustr8ing-coz this is my 2nd iTouch, my 1st one got stolen & I can't afford2buy my music back at this time & i NEVER before had a single problem with losing song file locations.
Is there anyone out there who has been through this frustrating game of chasing your tail?....<that's how I feel>
If so I would be ever so gr8ful if maybe someone with the knowledge would be so kind as 2 tell me how/where 2 retrieve these songs & how to put everything back where it belongs, I would be 4ever gr8ful !!!
I can't afford 2 replace the songs just like I'm unable 2 buy back my old music from my stolen iTouch....man that was an awesome collection-someday I'll be able 2 afford 2 do that & I would like 2 have all the new music that I paid 4 but cannot find when I got my new iTouch....that would just be wonderful.
I hope someone sees this post that can help me retrieve these files....losing $100.00 of iTunes is a REAL BUMMER!!!!!!
ThanQ SO very much!
[email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected] .
You can also find me on Facebook, my given name is Tiffinie Trimmer, &
that's my Facebook "handle". ThanQ 4 taking the time 2 read all of this!
hope 2 get a reply someday....I'll B checking all my emails & my Facebook, as well
as marking this page in my FAVORITES so I can find it fast! Take Care!!!I was not complete clear.
Since you never changed the settings in the advanced section of iTunes preferecnes, you have to chech that your music is really in the location setted in the folders reported in the advanced section. If not you have 2 ways: reset the position of this folders or in the actual disk organisation or in the pointing on the preferences.
If you press the reset button you just give to itunes its default setting as for the position of the music files: probably this will be a good choice if you have never changed any default preference.
But before I would check the folders and see if the songs are really there
In my iTune I have this, and I believe it is the default.
Users/YOURHOMEFOLDERNAME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music -
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I sure would like to decide about that myself.
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Decided to setup the mail for exchange on my N8 so I could see my work emails. Worked like a charm but after a couple of hours decided I didn't like being that contactable so deleted the mailbox.
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Would like to hope there is some way to have control over this. Can someone help?
Which firmware your N8 having now? You can check firmware by choosing Call, then type *#0000#.
My N8 works fine on security setting and able to define Phone auto lock period, by choosing Menu>Settings>Phone>Phone management>Security settings>Phone and SIM card>Phone auto lock period>User defined>Lock after(minutes)
You will prompt to enter Lock code each time u define auto lock priod or enable/disable auto lock.
Hope this can help you.
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