Hi Pele and CarolThat's very interesting. Thanks. Didn't see that key stroke anywhere. Let me know if there are any more, apart from the obvious play, stop, pause etc. -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx ---- Original Message ---- From: Ann Hamilton To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:56 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: how to extract the soundtrack from a digiTV recording > Carol > > I've not had a go at extracting from Digi yet. Seems like an awful > faff! (smile). . but if this helps, When listening live to a > broadcast or a recorded programme, shift right arrow increases the AD > volume. And, shift left arrow reduces the AD volume. > > hth > > Ann > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carol Pearson > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:40 PM > Subject: [access-uk] Re: how to extract the soundtrack from a digiTV > recording > > > Steve, > > I've been looking at this again and it all seems a bit messy and time > consuming! ... I'd sooner play using the video recorder and record > into GoldWave (using "What you Hear", or whatever the equivalent for > just getting it through the sound card). This may well be doable. > The problem I have, really, with the whole system is a fault with the > audio description using Freeview in that it's too low in volume. (We > don't have this problem when using Cable.) > > Now, is there any way you can think of to up the volume of the audio > description whilst listening (or even recording from that recording) > using the video recorder? > > It's all a bit make shift, but I'd like to have something that's a > bit more workable than just using the video recorder and, at the same > time, hopefully something that then can be transferred quickly and > easily to an audio device of my choosing. > > If anyone else has thoughts on this, please chime in here. > > Cheers. > > >> Hi Pele and Carol >> >> Here’s how to demultiplex DigiTV recordings to strip away the normal >> soundtrack and the audio description soundtrack. >> >> First, open DigiTV as normal – you may want to mute the sound by >> pressing the M key so that you can hear the prompts with Jaws or >> other screen reader. >> >> Go into the file menu and down cursor four times to the tools item >> and press enter. >> >> Right cursor twice to get onto the demultiplex tab. >> >> Tab four times until you hear browse after the input file prompt. >> Press the spacebar to get to a normal windows open dialog box. >> >> Press shift+tab to get into the file list of your recordings. Cursor >> down until you hear the name of the file you want to demultiplex. Now >> tab four times until you land on the open button and press the >> spacebar. You should hear jaws counting up towards 100%. >> >> Now, here’s where things get interesting. >> >> You are suddenly thrown back to the main DigiTV screen and wonder >> where the heck the demultiplex page has gone. However, don’t worry >> this is a bug in the software and all that has happened is that jaws >> has lost focus on the page. To return it to the focus, just press >> alt+tab and the windows will swap around and you’re back in the >> demultiplex dialog box. >> >> Now press tab until you land on the start demux button. Pres the >> spacebar and you will hear jaws reporting the percentage that DigiTV >> has demultiplexed the file. This may take one or two minutes >> depending on the size of the file. However the count never actually >> reaches 100%, it always appears to end at 99%. Now tab ten times >> until you land on the exit button and press spacebar and you will get >> back to the main DigiTV screen. >> >> Close down DigiTV. >> >> Now open your recordings folder and you will find that there are 3 >> new files, these will be the name of your recording plus 00c0.mp2, >> 00c1.mp2 and 00e0.m2v. >> >> The file ending in 00c0.mp2 is the normal soundtrack, the file ending >> in 00c1.mp2 is the audio description soundtrack. >> >> As I said, you can play the mp2 files in win amp or you can convert >> them in CDEX to mp3’s. >> I have been told by Nebula that you can use gold wave to merge the >> 00c0 and the 000c1 files to give you a complete audio described sound >> track, but it won’t create the dip in main soundtrack that’s normal >> when the voice over speaks and consequently it may be slightly >> difficult to hear distinctly when for example music is being played >> in the background of the main soundtrack. I haven't tried this myself >> as I don’t have gold wave and sound forge needs an expensive plug in >> to work with mp2 files. >> >> If you have any trouble with this procedure, just drop me a line and >> I’ll try and sort you out. >> >> Good luck >> >> Steve Green