johnwasser:
It might be time to find someone with a storage oscilloscope so you can check the raw signal for modulation frequency and pulse widths.
Man I was hoping to avoid this but it might be my last resort eh? is there some cheap pc ghetto version I can get?
So some update. I dissected the IRrecord sketch to use raw outputs all the time, and they work well with most of my home theatre devices... excluding my panasonic TV.
What works: Yamaha receiver, both motorolla cable boxes, toshiba tv.
Doesn't work: Panasonic TV ( but works if I use the sendPanasonic command from the JVCPanasonicSendDemo sketch), pioneer dvd player, bose sound dock, and regrettably the only thing I care about working ... the electric curtains.
AnalysisIR - that's quite coincidental that the marks/spaces line up to 100, I thought my buffer changes had no effect. Anyways I am now attempting to use the advice from your blog and use the IRLib library. I will continue to update. Let me know if there's more I should try.