Thread: TiVo Sound Effects
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Old 14-05-2011, 13:40   #5
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Re: Sound Effects

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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
I suspect may not be possible to fix. The problem is when on a Dolby channel, the Dolby data stream is simply passed straight through the STB without being modified in any way. So the STB doesn't have opportunity to mix in the badoop sound effects. To do so, it would have to decode the Dolby, mix in the effects, the re-encode it back into Dolby. Not simple, and may degrade the audio quality.
Thanks Spiderplant.

How does it work with non-Dolby data stream? Doesn't it just pass those straight through anyway? Presumably there would be no decoding/re-encoding required. So how does the badoop get added to those?
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