Music/Radio/Audio Only

[satcustomer]

Have never been able to figure this out (and I'm not quite sure why!). Usually when I scan a bird, there are audio channels that scan in. How, using my Fortec Mercury II, do I go about listening to them?

 

[Mr Tony]

most remotes have a TV radio button to flip between the two

 

[voomvoom]

I don't have a Fortec receiver, but there could be 2 possibilities. 1) a button on your remote with TV/Radio written above or below it. 2) a button on your remote with Audio written above or below it. Your remote probably has one or the other, and it may have both?

Al

 

[Mr Tony]

according to the manual there is a TV/Radio button near the bottom

 

[voomvoom]

A button with TV/Radio is what I'm sure your question is about. The Audio button is for Audio sub-channels for the TV picture. Hope I haven't confused you when I mentioned it?

Al

 

[concord]

The audio button is used for radio also, there may be two or more sub-channels on one channel. If you hear more than one "station", i.e. one comming from the left speaker and another on the right, use the audio button to select the sub-channel to hear the desired one.

 

[Diamond Jim]

You can also take any TV channel you are not using, or scan one in and edit the PIDs. Put zeros in for the VPID and the audio number for the APID. You will then be able to listen to radio on the TV side with a black screen. That's the way I do it. You don't have to mess with flipping back and forth or with all of the radio stations you don't want when you do a scan.

 

[mastermesh]

Put zeros in for the VPID and the audio number for the APID.

That might work... but I'm using 1497 and/or 8193 for the video pid to do similar since my pansat's tv/radio function is screwed up somehow and it won't let me go in to radio except once and then back out before needing a factory reset to get it to work again. According to some posts in a certain thread in the WUT area, Zeros won't work on all receivers for video pid when you are trying to just get an audio channel in the video side... that thread also says, according to Mike Kohl,

Normal Video PID for audio services should be 8191 on most consumer receivers.

Mike also suggested in that thread that entering random PIDs to get color bars can sometimes hold a better sync than just a blank screen that you get with 8191.

Getting a real video pid also might be useful, in case you, like me, have a pansat and when you don't get real video you get a big box that says, "NO SIGNAL" that you need to turn tv off not to see or else you will eventually get image burn (I use computer speakers coming out of audigy external soundcard to hear the stuff when tv is off)

 

[concord]

You can also take any TV channel you are not using, or scan one in and edit the PIDs. Put zeros in for the VPID and the audio number for the APID.

Good idea, I'll have to try that. On the Merc II, if the last time you listened to music was on G25 but you are currently watching TV on G10R, when you hit the TV/Radio button it moves the dish to G25.... a pain, would prefer it stay on the same sat and allow me to decide where to go...

 

[satcustomer]

Yeah, I think that's what I remember it doing, too, Concord, and I didn't like it.