[mythtv] Occasionally no audio while recording with PVR-350

Steven Cruysberghs steven.cruysberghs at tiscali.be
Sun Feb 8 04:20:22 EST 2004


I tried the ivtv list with this problem a couple of days ago.
http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Feb-2004/msg00130.html



Op za 07-02-2004, om 21:23 schreef Andreas Sahlbach:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm currently using release 0.14 with ivtv 0.1.9, recording with a PVR-350
> and watching with a gforce.
> 
> I have the following problem: Every morning I'm recording a couple of shows
> for my little daughter. These shows are all on the same channel and most of
> them are just 15 minutes or so. No one is using MythTV for other things
> during these recordings. Everything works fine but sometimes it happens,
> that one of the recording contains no sound.
> 
> It looks like that this happens pretty randomly. Sometimes more than one
> show has no sound, sometimes just one show, but always the complete
> recording of the particular show has no sound. It also happened once to
> myself, recording a single BBC-report at the evening. It never happened so
> far during watching live tv.
> 
> Because it's always affecting the complete show, I guess it has something to
> do with the initialization of the audio input. I was watching the mailing
> lists during the last months and saw one or two guys with similar problems
> and they both had a PVR-250/350 for input.
> 
> I set up a cron job to log the output of test_ioctl -a during the
> recordings, but the output looks ok during a recording without sound (sound
> is not muted). There is nothing special so far in the syslog.
> 
> Also the recorded files contain a correct audio layer. It's just that the
> audio layer contains no sound.
> 
> I need some help now guys, because I don't know where to look next. What can
> I do to search for this bug? Where should I search? Is it a mythtv bug or is
> it ivtv related? What kind of debug-flags can I turn on to get some hints?
> 
> Any help will be appreciated! Thanks guys..
> 
> Andreas
> 
> BTW: Even with this bug: MythTV is great! Thanks to all devs doing this
> great work.
> 
> 
> 
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