<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi<br><br>Hydrix - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Our expertise - Your competitive advantage</span></div><div><br>On 24/07/2009, at 9:03 AM, Casey Bragg <<a href="mailto:caseybragg@yahoo.com">caseybragg@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I have a need to be able to toggle the AC3 and DTS pass through settings depending on what I'm watching. I created a script to do that directly in the database. I trigger the script from a menu item.<br><br>To turn passthrough on, I run this SQL:<br>" update mythconverg.settings set data=1 where value like '%PassThru' and hostname='mythfemain' "<br><br>The script works, but the change doesn't seem to "take". This is not a sql commit problem. I see the changed values in the DB. However, if I toggle the passthrough buttons through the setup->general screen, the change works correctly.<br><br>Is there some field I need to adjust other than settings.AC3PassThru->data and settings.DTSPassThru->data?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>FYI - Somebody might need to know why I'm doing this. The reason is that I'm feeding two TVs off
of one head. One TV apparently can't handle the AC3/DTS signal, but the other can. The one apparently can only handle stereo over SPDIF(actually over HDMI). Bummer. It's a Sony Bravia LCD. Would have been nice to know before purchase.<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>When you're changing the settings on the fly like this, the playback isn't restarted so the audio settings stays as they were as the database isn't read until you restarted it. </div><div><br></div><div>If you check ticket #5900, I allows on the fly changes. This is much more complicated than just changing the database value. </div><div><br></div><div>You could use #5900 as a starting point and see what is bein done to change on the fly. </div><div><br></div><div>Quite a bit of effort will be required here. </div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Yves</div></body></html>