[mythtv-users] Live TV audio sounds horrible, but the line-insounds ok?

[Doug Miller]

I think i had the same problem.  I stopped using myth for a while 
because of it.  Anyway, i redid my setup (reinstalled gentoo and 
everything) and the problem went away.  Is your sound also coming out of 
only 1 channel?  Its been a while, but I think that when i ran aplay 
/dev/dsp, it showed it as being 8bit audio or something to that effect.  
anyway, try wiping and reinstalling everything related to audio.  That 
may help your problem.  As i said, i just redid my entire machine (using 
the same hardware) and it solved the issue for me.

Christopher Maahs wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, QwQw wrote:
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>>It's not the FAQ issue, I'll try to clarify. The sound in mythtv just sounds
>>bad. It's not an echo like if there were two feeds going. There just doesn't
>>seem to be much range and quality to the audio. It's as if it were an mp3
>>encoded with a really low bit rate, if I were to try and describe it as
>>something you may have heard. If I just unmute the line-in and hear the
>>direct audio it sounds good though. So I know it's not the audio feed, just
>>something going on when it is recorded.
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>I also had the exact same issue with my initial test machine.  It was an 
>Intel motherboard with built in sound.  OSS and ALSA displayed the same 
>issue with any video running through Myth.  Installing a cheap SB-16 PCI 
>solved the problem completely.
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>~cj
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