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Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 04-23-2005, 10:46 AM:

I have experienced an issue with the new ad that started on 4/22/05. It is the Mini Cooper convertible rolling stock ad that is playing. The analog sound is fine, but when it runs in Dolby Digital mode, there is pure silence.

It seems that the Digital data is there, just no audio encoded.

Anyone else?

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 04-23-2005, 10:50 AM:

whats the digital unit doing. Does it show error rates or the yellow indicator for analog sound. I know that I have one here that does not have a digital track and I have to manually set the sound to analog. It is the first one on the ads so it is no big deal.

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 04-23-2005, 05:12 PM:

i've had a couple trailers like that. ("control room" and "kontroll"... hmmm) the srd reads fine, but is silent, so it won't revert to analog. of course you don't find out about this until you run it. as long as your da20 isn't set to auto-digital, you can cue the sound to sr then back to digital at the end.

carl

Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 04-23-2005, 11:59 PM:

Daryl, we did this in multiple houses with Dolby readers, the error rate is low 1-3. Just no digital audio, other ads play in Digital just fine.

See, Digital is perfect! [Wink]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 04-24-2005, 02:36 AM:

LOL...like me back in '98 when ANTS was getting ready to open. Some trailers versions of ANTS had a French dialog track encoded on the SRD track, whereas the other 3 tracks were english. Definitely had to watch out for that one each time I had to put one of these trailers on. Actually had to pre-screen these trailers for some had this goofed up track and others didn't-and there were no ID's on the leaders anywhere of the French encoded SRD track.

yep.. digital is "perfect".....

-Monte