Trying to recreate the magic

[Robby]

Don't know if anyone can help, but I thought I would throw this out. A few years ago, I was watching a football game, when all of the sudden the audio channel that the announcers were on just faded out, leaving me with nothing but raw game audio. Everything else was there. It was not a glitch on the broadcast, just my computer (this happened using antenna on my capture card).

Needless to say, this made for the best football watching experience one could ask for: surround sound, HD football and no announcers to ruin it. Every once in a while, they would fade back in at full volume for a few seconds and then fade out, but it was otherwise bliss. It happened on both Fox and CBS. Then one day about 3 weeks later, it just started working correctly again.

So in short, the question is does anyone know what might have happened, and if there is a way I can make it happen again? Any audio filtering programs available that might allow me to control individual channels? I know so little about audio that I don't really know where to start.

[theewizard]

Sorry ..No!
this was Not your computer or the capture card
this was a network problem

[Robby]

It most definitely was not a network problem. My set up (at the time) had a dual tuner capture card, one analog and one clear-qam. The analog broadcast (cable) was fine, and clear-qam, when plugged directly in to the tv on the same antenna, was also fine. It only happened when I was watching the broadcast via the clear-qam tuner.

[smrpix]

Sounds like you were only getting the surround channels on a 5.1 broadcast.

[Robby]

I'll note that my computer was video out via VGA, audio via optical to a 5.1 receiver.

[smrpix]

Mute the L&R front channels, reroute the surround to your front speakers and you're good to go.

[Robby]

Cool. And how might I do that?

[smrpix]

Every system is different. Start by going through the documentation for your audio cards and receiver. Most are configurable to some extent.