Recording oddity with optical cord?

[RobS]

I have my DVD player linked to my Hifi via an optical cable....then I have my iHP120 connected to my Hifi in order to record the soundtrack of the DVD.

As usual I press record on the iHP....wait for RECORD to appear on the screen before pressing play on the DVD....but when I press play on the dvd...or skip forward or skip back the Saving, please wait notice appears and it stops recording...it does the same with a cd in the DVD player....it keeps doing this and the only work around at the moment appears to be to play the DVD at the track before the one I want, then press record....and then stop after recording and edit the mp3 on my pc.

Is this normal? It works ok when using Line In...but not Optical In....I had no problems when I was recording CDs from my Hifi using the same method.

PS...the red light in the unplugged cable doesn't go out when I press the offending buttons on my dvd player.

[Astec]

I believe the optical output on the DVD player stops outputting signals when you skip, the player senses this and stops recording to save power as it assumes your done with that track, Im not sure but the thing I believe has a setting to tell it to wait longer than normal before it cuts out.

[lozza17]

hey, i want to record a music dvd onto my h140, but i dont have a clue how to do it? this is buggin me bad man!
i just cant do it! do you have to have optical?
where do you put the leads? i am playing the dvd on my laptop, so where do you put the optical in the laptop, in the headphone port? and where do u put the optical on the iriver?
this is probably a stupid question, and reaaly simple, sorry ! lol
thanks, lozza x

[Haku]

I just tried recording audio from my DVD player using the optical link for the first time, thought there was something wrong with the DVD player till I realised I'd recorded the mp3 at 40kbps

Anyway I'd set the DVD player to output "PCM", previously I'd set it to "Raw" so my amp would do the decoding of the incoming signal. I had no problems recording audio from a DVD with 5.1 audio on because the player decoded it to stereo to output as PCM, nor any problems recording from a normal audio CD, skipping tracks, pressing stop & start and doing ffwd/rew didn't stop the recording at all.

lozza17, you will need some way of outputting optical to record optical from your laptop, if it's too expensive to find the necessary hardware or can't find it then just use the headphone socket on the laptop and record using line-in on the H140.


My DVD player is an eBench KH6777, cheapo thing from Lidl with a ton of ports on the back: composite, s-video, component, SP/DIF, optical, scart & 6 phono sockets for full DTS/DD 6 channel decoding. Such a nice player I bought a 2nd one and stored it away as backup for when this one goes to silicone heaven.

[ibtrdia]

I have a Toshiba DVD and I am trying to record some CD tracks using the optical out on the DVD.

I've set the audio on the DVD to PCM and the bitrate on the H120 to 128 kbps.

I'm using a Toslink with the optical male and the mini jack. The problem is that I only get silence when I record it.

Anyone have any idea to troubleshoot this problem.

[dj_stick]

Originally Posted by ibtrdia

I have a Toshiba DVD and I am trying to record some CD tracks using the optical out on the DVD.

I've set the audio on the DVD to PCM and the bitrate on the H120 to 128 kbps.

I'm using a Toslink with the optical male and the mini jack. The problem is that I only get silence when I record it.

Anyone have any idea to troubleshoot this problem.

is your DVD player set to AC3 or stereo PCM?

[ibtrdia]

I've set the DVD to PCM instead of RAW.

There is the red LED light but no source when I tried to record using my H120.

[Wolfen]

Don't DVD players have some type of copy protection that must be overcome when using the optical out?

[ibtrdia]

I'm not sure if it has an encryption for the optical out for the DVD.

Anyone have successfully recorded songs using the optical out of a CD player to the H100 using a toslink cable ?

[Mr Whippy]

Yup, I have- no problems. Marantz CD-63SE, optical out to H140. Recording to WAV, copy to PC and encode. Are you sure optical input on the iriver is selected? (bit of a pain, have to select in main menu and recording menu too)

If you want to record from laptop digitally, buy a USB sound box (I have one, about £15) then connect and choose that device from windows. Connect h140.

[ibtrdia]

]Mr Whippy[

Thanks for the heads up.

It was setup with line in instead of optical in. It is good to go to record from my DVD player.

I forgot how to change to optical in.

I'm using a toslink cable that has the optical male and changeable to 3.5mm stereo jack.