Thread: Pansat 250sm ac3 audio help

Does anybody have ac3 audio working on a pansat 250sm through optical cable? I can´t get mine to work on my sony a/v receiver. I´m trying to get audio from amc21, I am able to listen through a CS5000 on my same setup to the same sony receiver, so I know everything else is working right. The pansat used to have third party software installed, tried with that and then I installed factory software, but no go with any of them. Any ideas? Thanks.

Did you check the info on one of the PBS -AC3 channels to see if the receiver is picking up an audio pid? Does the box work on any other AC3 channel , like Pentagon-ac3 on amc1?

Turbo, yes, picking up audio/video pids fine. I even manually advanced scanned individually these channels. And I can´t listen to history and bio ac3 @101 either. I got to test a friend´s pansat 250sm last night on my setup with same results. Coud there be something faulty on this pansat model hardware or software or just Murphy doing his thing on me?

I have never tried the spdif coaxial digital audio thingy cause I dont have this cable, do you think I should try and get one and try it? Thanks.

I don't think any of my boxes will get those AC3 channels on AMC4, haven't tried lately but seems like I have in the past. If your rec has both optical output, and coaxial I would think both would work the same, but who knows. Several of my receivers have both outputs and I have never tried anything except the spdif cable output lol. I haven't heard a lot about that pansat model, but sometimes the 3rd party software fixes things that factory files didn't. Might be worth trying, load it, do it factory reset and give it a whirl.
edit to add : Sometimes I have found that the receiver has to 'sit' on a channel with AC3 for a minute or so before it ever starts outputting sound. No idea why that is. Or sometimes I can use the channel up and then back to original channel and it will start working.

Thanks turbo for the input, I´ll keep on trying with your tips.

Jogon64, have you been able to solve this problem? I am having those exact issues with a Pansat 250sm. I installed a Sonic Voom for AC3 on AMC21, but nothing comes through. I did as Turbosat suggested with the factory reset -- still nothing! How is it going for you?

One more thing I discovered on my Mercury 2 yesterday>there is a menu option in the receiver-setup to turn the optical output jack ON or OFF. Might be worth a check through all your menu options to see if that 250Panny has something like that! Good luck.

zj126, nope, still nothing on the pansat 250sm. I´m getting ac3 through my cs5000 (Hey Turbo, I even checked history and bio on 101w and yeah I can get those too). I went ahead and ordered a digital coax for the spdif I´ll let you know as soon as I get it probably next week and give it a try. I am insisting with the pansat because of better picture quality over the coolsat. Thanks for asking.
The panny does not have a menu option for the audio optical output selection.

It's a puzzle! It'd be hard to believe a Pansat model that new wouldn't pass the ac-3 sound out to the jack. Hope you figure it out.