I have an HD Homerun and Channels running on an up to date Synology NAS. Everything has been running great for almost 2 years now I think but last night one of my channels (ABC affiliate WLOS 113.1) recorded shows with no sound. The video will play fine but no sound on recordings but when I try to watch that channel live it freezes and won’t play video either. All other channels are working fine live or recorded. I’m running the latest Beta and have tried on multiple devices with the same results. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on?
It's an ATSC 3.0 station and they could be screwing with anything from compression to DRM. Here's some possible things that might help, but your best bet is to switch to 13.1 if you can.
Since this is a ATSC 3.0 issue, there will be no development work on this:
Apparently there is no 13.1 or not that I can see anyway. Thanks for the feedback.
I took a guess at your general location (you can rerun the report with your own real address), and it looks like you could maybe pick it up, but you are going to either need to re-point your antenna or get a second one and a combiner (check "Antenna Man" on YouTube for help with both of these).
The ATSC 3.0 stations in your area are sharing a tower that is close by and in one direction:
The 1.0 station for WLOS looks not only in another direction and further away, but also has a whole lot of mountainous obstructions!
Given that, it might not be possible at all, but it's worth a shot!
@Goober96
Does the channel play on the Silicon Dust Android/Apple App correctly?
If not you may want to reach out to Silicon Dust about the issue also.
If it DOES play alright...
Another option is to get a cheap hdmi encoder and use either ADBTuner or ah4c to feed it into CDVR.
If it plays with audio in the HDHR app, could be like these stations.
Can you select another audio track when you play it back?
In my case now I realize I can change to the "Spanish" track immediately and the audio starts playing, in stereo, in English. I just wish I didn't have to change it every time.
Yeah that appears to work for me too. Thanks for the suggestion!
Only thing is that also turns on the audio description. Any way to stop that from turning on?
New here. WLOS does the same thing on ATSC 1.0. I disabled ATSC 3.o on HDHR. Does this sort of thing usually get resolved? The language thing works, so thanks a lot! It does read storm warnings out loud. Don't know where that came from. One of the main reasons for a DVR is General Hospital for my wife. lol
Mine has started working again, a few days ago.
You must be living right! I'll try harder.
Mine is also [or still] not working. Where I am located, I cannot see 13.1 on Mount Pisgah, and I can't seem to see the repeaters, either. It's 113.1 or nothing for WLOS, I'm afraid (maybe a very tall antenna mast, but that's likely not happening). 113.1 is on a tower about 8 miles away, the ground is mostly flat and the signal is excellent. It's almost exactly 180 degrees away from all the ATSC 1 antennas, so a single UHF antenna is getting the job done.
I noticed the issue a week or two ago when trying to watch a basketball game but just switched to another source, but my wife noticed it Wednesday night when trying to watch a recording.
[For her, Channels is a backup to a paid TV provider, which for me is mostly a source for authenticating TVE-provided channels. The TV provider's DVR died Tuesday night and she was trying to watch recordings that I made on Channels. Because of this, I often don't notice issues when they develop on the OTA channels.]
Anyway, I opened a ticket via e-mail and created another thread about this (and other issue I was having with another ATSC 3.0 channel, WSPA) and was referred over here. I thought I'd throw my two cents in.