[mythtv-users] audio deleted after recording is finished

[Mark Covington]

Sounds like an excuse to upgrade my main machines sound card and push my 
Live5.1 down to the Shuttle. :-D  Thanks for letting me know that a new video 
card solved it though!  I was worried it was a database setting and wasn't 
looking forward to sorting through that.

-- 
Mark Covington
markcov at alumni.rice.edu


Quoting Edward G Finegan <edfinegan at mac.com>:

> I just got a SB live card because i was feed up with the built in
> C-media chip and found that with the SB card all the recordings that had
> no sound now did. This makes me think that maybe the problem is like you
> said and that when it is played back it is played at a encoding that is
> to much for the C-media to handle. The SB card as much better sound
> quality other the C-media due to it being full-duplex and c-media not
> really being so. 
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 22:21, Mark Covington wrote:
> > I seem to remember an earlier posting about our problem...but I can't 
> > seem to find it in the archives now though.  Perhaps someone else on the 
> > list may remember and help point the way.  It appears that 
> > "WatchingPreRecorded" plays our files without sound, and 
> > "WatchingRecording" plays the files with sound.  I.E. if we are watching 
> > a recording and it finishes recording the sound cuts out immediately as 
> > mythfrontend changes to using "WatchingPreRecorded".  So something must 
> > be different in the two players to cause such a problem.
> > 
> > Secondly (and this is where I remember a similar problem, but not the 
> > solution).  You'll find that if you are recording a program at the same 
> > time, the sound will come in fine on any prerecorded program.  Odd I 
> > know, it doesn't seem that one should have anything to do with the 
> > other.  Oh well, perhaps it will jog the memory of another user and what 
> > they found solved the problem.  Pleap and found that with the SB card all the recordings that had
> no sound now did. This makes me think that maybe the problem is like you
> said and that when it is played back it is played at a encoding that is
> to much for the C-media to handle. The SB card as much better sound
> quality other the C-media due to it being full-duplex and c-media not
> really being so. 
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 22:21, Mark Covington wrote:
> > I seem to remember an earlier posting about our problem...but I can't 
> > seem to find it in the archives now though.  Perhaps someone else on the 
> > list may remember and help point the way.  It appears that 
> > "WatchingPreRecorded" plays our files without sound, and 
> > "WatchingRecording" plays the files with sound.  I.E. if we are watching 
> > a recording and it finishes recording the sound cuts out immediately as 
> > mythfrontend changes to using "WatchingPreRecorded".  So something must 
> > be different in the two players to cause such a problem.
> > 
> > Secondly (and this is where I remember a similar problem, but not the 
> > solution).  You'll find that if you are recording a program at the same 
> > time, the sound will come in fine on any prerecorded program.  Odd I 
> > know, it doesn't seem that one should have anything to do with the 
> > other.  Oh well, perhaps it will jog the memory of another user and what 
> > they found solved the problem.  Please reply Edward if the symptoms I 
> > added above also apply in your case.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > Edward G Finegan wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm having the same problem and I have the same sound card.
> > >
> > >
> > >On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:29, Mark Covington wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Currently running CVS, most current as of the timestamp on this email.  
> > >>This happened on the same day that I upgraded about a week or two's 
> > >>worth of CVS updates and started playing with transcoding at the same 
> > >>time....so that's a lot of variables unfortunately.
> > >>
> > >>Currently I can:
> > >> - watch Live TV
> > >> - watch old recordings
> > >> - watch new recordings while they are in progress
> > >>Cannot
> > >> - watch new recordings as soon as they are finished recording.
> > >>
> > >>My default profile is not set to transcode, I only played with 
> > >>transcoding by pressing 'X' within the recording (after I updated to 
> > >>current CVS).  After it was done it had no sound, so I figured I messed 
> > >>up something in the transcoding profiles.  But then nothing had sound 
> > >>after that.
> > >>
> > >>Solutions attempted:
> > >> - installed the 0.11 release, no help, returned back to current CVS.
> > >> - checked mixer settings (didn't think it was this anyway)
> > >> - turned off auto commercial skip
> > >> - set the backend to display all verbose, nothing other than the usse reply Edward if the symptoms I 
> > added above also apply in your case.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > Edward G Finegan wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm having the same problem and I have the same sound card.
> > >
> > >
> > >On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:29, Mark Covington wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Currently running CVS, most current as of the timestamp on this email.  
> > >>This happened on the same day that I upgraded about a week or two's 
> > >>worth of CVS updates and started playing with transcoding at the same 
> > >>time....so that's a lot of variables unfortunately.
> > >>
> > >>Currently I can:
> > >> - watch Live TV
> > >> - watch old recordings
> > >> - watch new recordings while they are in progress
> > >>Cannot
> > >> - watch new recordings as soon as they are finished recording.
> > >>
> > >>My default profile is not set to transcode, I only played with 
> > >>transcoding by pressing 'X' within the recording (after I updated to 
> > >>current CVS).  After it was done it had no sound, so I figured I messed 
> > >>up something in the transcoding profiles.  But then nothing had sound 
> > >>after that.
> > >>
> > >>Solutions attempted:
> > >> - installed the 0.11 release, no help, returned back to current CVS.
> > >> - checked mixer settings (didn't think it was this anyway)
> > >> - turned off auto commercial skip
> > >> - set the backend to display all verbose, nothing other than the usual 
> > >>"strange error flushing buffer" stuff.
> > >>My soundcard (onboard CMI8738 on a Shuttle SS40G) doesn't seem to like 
> > >>playing anything but 32kHz stuff, so it could be that the files are 
> > >>somehow getting marked as another bit rate.
> > >>
> > >>any ideas on stuff to check?
> > >>    
> > >>
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> > >>
> -- 
> Edward G Finegan <edfinegan at mac.com>
> 
> 


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