OZC - Stand Alone Complex (1st Season)

[Neco]

Does anyone know the encoding profile used for the audio tracks?
They won't play on my WDTV Live, even though it clearly sees them and lists them as AAC Digital ( think that's what the notification says, it's AAC something) .   They play fine on my PC of course, but this is the first torrent from OZC that I've had problems with on my WDTV and was wondering if it simply didn't support the profile used (if different from the other releases).

I recently formatted and don't have access to any of my usual tools  to find out for myself, at the moment.

edit:  In fact in may be an AAC 5.1 problem..  I've done some googling and this comes up as an issue for people it seems..  One guy was told by WD support  "we never advertised surround sound support"  which is only partially true.  They don't really list anything on the box for AAC specs,  but I know for a fact the unit plays  DTS / AC3 files just fine and they carry those logos on the box..   Obfuscating the AAC support was kind of lame though.   But its only one format, I guess.

ah well..  guessing it just won't handle 5.1 AAC  or its an issue with the receiver not being able to handle it, or something like that...    Would suck to have to demux and transcode to AC3 or DTS, or downsample to 2.0 AAC, etc... then have to remux it all...

[Havoc10K]

this should be in the technical thread, not in anime discussion, good luck with it tough.

[Takeshi]

How about asking the man himself?

[Neco]

It probably should, be sometimes its confusing seeing as both forum descriptions indicate they are exclusive of each other.   And technically its a question of both.  Staff are more than welcome to move it.   


As for asking OCZ himself, I assumed he is a pretty busy guy, and it would be quicker for asking a community member who may have already known, or could spend 2 seconds checking,  seeing as I don't have the tools installed atm.

Good job avoiding that though, guys 

[Takeshi]

I don't know, most of the time I've lurked on his blog he's been willing to answer questions. He doesn't seem to bite.

[Neco]

No doubt, he's a nice guy.  But in the end the problem likely isn't the torrent anyway.  Just my player unable to use 5.1 AAC apparently.   Hopefully  it won't be a pain to remux it with transcoded  AC3's or something like that.   Seeing as I can't stream for shit from Windows 7 for lack of proper MKV suppport in MCE, etc..   DivX has a fix that'll at least let you play the damn things from MCE,  but its buggy and it still won't transcode or anything,  since apparently  WD's unit  can READ mkv's but not take them as streams 


Overall I'm happy with the unit though.  Very few problems with playing back MKV's at all.   And usually its random stuff like this, with unsupported audio or video encode settings.

[costi]

WD TV HD will only support 2.0 AAC, I'm afraid. If you have the gen1 version (ie. without HDMI1.3 and DTS decoding) you can try some unofiicial firmwares, maybe they add this functionality.