Thread: Pansat 250sm ac3 audio help

Thanks Anole.

I am listening to ac3 through optical jack from my coolsat to my sony receiver as well as all other audio from my fixed dishes to 30,79,101 and 125w ku. When on ac3 my receiver displays "Dolby Digital 2.0", when not it says "PCM 48" When trying the same through the pansat 250sm all non ac3 works regularly, but ac3 only squeaks and says "PCM 48" but no audio. I´m gonna try trough coaxial as soon as I get one delivered.

I did not know a video cable (yellow) could work for digital audio. I´ll give it a try tonight and see how that goes. Thanks.

The pansat gives me no menu option for audio.

The audio receiver is apparently not sensing the AC-3 stream, and is trying to process it as PCM uncompressed audio. The squealing is actually what the AC-3 stream sounds like when it is not decompressed.

Well first of all I wanna thank all you guys for helping me out on trying to fix my ac3 audio problem.

Next I want to apologize to you all for making a very big dumb mistake of not looking at the rear of my Pansat 250sm closely. Turns out it does not have a coax digital out!! It just has the optical out.

Anyway I got the coax cable I ordered only to find out I couldnt hook it up! But the optical still doesnt work though.

I fixed the problem for my wife to watch V-Me on amc21 by borrowing a Pansat 2700 from my friend which doesnt have optical but does have coax digital and voila! ...audio.

I guess there´s something not right with the 250sm. My friend doesnt care about ac3 so we´ll exchange stb for now.

As turbo said I would have thought Pansat would put out better working models. Not to put down coolsats but the panny has better picture quality and in my opinion better blind scanning, but well thats just me.

I hope this thread can be of use to anyone out there with similar problem, for now I might just give it a rest now that the wife is happy.

Thanks again.

Too bad jogon, would've thought the hacker software would've fixed that problem...maybe those models weren't popular for stealing so they didn't get as much "support". Still, seems like Pansat would provide decent support for it.

Hi guys,

It is happening to me too with AMC21. I get no sound on this sat unless I use my Mercury 2. Pansat 250sm what a disappointment. I notice that no one mention that you can actually make the changes by using the audio setup but it will not save it meaning if you change channels you will have to set it up again. The audio setup will not work with AMC 21. I did send an email concerning this problem to PANAREX two days ago and so far no answer. So much for improving my sat equipment.

I'm not sure you guys have solved the mystery with AC3 on Pansat 250SM but here is what I got from Pansat USA:

A new file was made for this particular problem. You can visit our website www.pansatusa.com and download the latest software for the 250SM. The new software version has the December 14, 2009 date in it.
You will first have to download the software. Next, select the "Factory settings" option and press the "OK" button. Finally, you will have to re-scan the satellite(s) in order for the unit to start a fresh list of channels and for the new software to operate properly.

Unlucky me my computer does not have the 232 RS plug. I have the cable. I guess I'm have way there.

Please let me know if this works for you.

Well that's great news for 250 owners, I hope it fixes the problem.

Jibaro,
Do you think the file can be downloaded to box via usb?

I do not know. I hope that's the case. Maybe someone here can tell us.