DirecTV receiver attempts to play .wav file but no sound

Hello,

I believe the directv receiver cannot actually play .wav files but it tries. The little window with the audio tracks file info comes up on the TV and the duration bar progresses, but no sound comes out. I also watch the status on the Mezzmo console and it does not show any attempts to send a trans-coded file. I was thinking then to just pre-transcode all of my .wav files but when I select into the audio format, all I see is s16be as an option. I know it can play mp3, but why can't I select it as an option, and what is s16be? The profile is named: DirectV HR20-21 (LPCM).

Thanks

Lonwa

Can you post the FFmpeg information for one of the .wav files that do not play? To do this, right-click on the file in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'.

Here you go:

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ffmpeg version N-36036-ga40f43d, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 22 2011 13:44:49 with gcc 4.6.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 46. 1 / 53. 46. 1
libavformat 53. 27. 0 / 53. 27. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[wav @ 003f8300] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510
Input #0, wav, from 'D:\Data\Music\VML\008 - The Latin Train - Arturo Sandoval\01 Be-Bop.wav':
Metadata:
artist : Unknown Artist
title : Track 1
album : Unknown Album (6/11/2009 6:14:34 PM)
genre : Unknown Genre
ITOC : B+96+4CD8+934E+C4B8+1215D+16F37+1B1F9+1EC00+24885+ 29DBC+2CEBB+338E7
ITRK : 1
Duration: 00:04:20.29, bitrate: 1411 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1411 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 0, -99
---> Frame rate:
---> Aspect ratio:

Thanks for the FFmpeg information. Please try the "DirecTV HR24 (MP3)" device profile and see if that works better for you. Go to the Media Devices dialog in Mezzmo to change your device profile.

That worked. Thanks

Can you also walk me through configuring the transcoding settings (like the bit rate the transcoding process uses for the mp3 it creates and streams)?

Thanks

Lonwa

The 'Direct TV HR24 (MP3)' device profile will transcode any incompatible music files to MP3. Depending on the attributes of the original music files, the transcoded MP3 files will take on the following attributes:

• channels: 2 or 1
• bitrate: 320K
• sampling rate: 48K, 44.1K or 32K