Hi Pele and CarolOK, I know, I should look ... but have mercy ... I was born with a computer score of 0! <Smiles> -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Original Message ---- From: Steve Nutt To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:14 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: how to extract the soundtrack from a digiTV recording > Hi Carol, > > There is a whole list of shortcuts in the DigiTV help. > > All the best > > Steve > > > > > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Carol Pearson > Sent: Monday 24 March 2008 18:01 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: how to extract the soundtrack from a digiTV > recording > > > That'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 >> >> 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