[mythtv-users] dual tuners - one no sound when concurrent recordings

cmisip cmisip at insightbb.com
Mon Jul 28 22:36:18 EDT 2003


have you tried reducing the bitrate and resolution just to check if
maybe the settings are just too high for your processor?

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 11:21, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2003 at 16:18, cmisip wrote:
> 
> > That was just an example.  If you want emu10k1 to load before
> > via82cxxx-audio before btaudio you need two lines:
> > pre-install via82cxx-audio modprobe emu10k1
> > pre-install btaudio modprobe via82cxx-audio
> 
> Ahh, will give that a try....
> 
> > I also notice that sometimes modules.conf will not complain about some
> > errors during boot.  Have you tried testing it without rebooting.  I had
> > to do a series of depmod -a and modprobes to finally get the correct
> > module loading.
> 
> Yes, have tried it without rebooting, no joy.
> 
> Anyways, here is where I am at now.  I can have a recording of one show going 
> and then can startup livetv with another show.
> 
> Both recording streams get audio, however the live tv tends to get choppy 
> both with audio and video with pauses every 10-20 seconds or so. Looking at 
> the term window I started mythfrontend from, I first see rebuffering a few 
> times, then after a minute or some, I see audio buffer overflowed, audio data 
> lost.  If I then shut down live tv and later on watch the first recorded 
> video, it's av are out of sync until the around the time I stopped watching 
> live tv on the second tuner.  I am sure part of this is processor (and 
> motherboard) related as I only have an XP1800+ on a VIA KT133a board and I 
> have both tuners set to use MPEG4.
> 
> I also tried using the aggressive soundcard buffering feature but that made 
> no difference.
> 
> Also, while I had one stream being recorded in MPEG4, I switched the second 
> to RTJPEG and then went to live tv, same problems as before but different 
> errors this time
> 
> Your soundcard is not reporting freespace correctly.
> Falling back to old method....
> 



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