[mythtv-users] RE: NewB woes: Sound problems

Maarten mythtv at ultratux.org
Sat Aug 14 15:44:14 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 01 January 2002 19:02, James J Tucker wrote:

Please set your date correctly.  It wreaks havoc on mail sorting apart from 
looking a bit... retarded ;)


> DOH, forgot to mention that my tuner is an Avertv Stereo.
> /having one of those "stayed up until 5 in the morning, surreal days"
> -jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James J Tucker
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 12:55 PM
> Subject: NewB woes: Sound problems
>
>
> Hello to all,
> I have been reading the archives on this list for a while. I plotted, i
> planned, and finally managed to get the time/resources to build my own myth
> box, following (more or less) jarrods guide. The system is setup like so:
> amd 1900+, 512 mb ram, onboard sound (SIS), Geforce 2 MX, plenty of
> ide/scsi storage, and Fedora Core 2. (I was planning on using Suse, but my
> free Dvd kit hasn't shown up yet). Here are the poblems i have (so far ;) )
> :
> 1) Sound loops, i get about a 2 sec loop of whatever channel i am watching,
> which repeats itself/amplyfies itself/echos. I think this might be the
> buffer filling, because it goes away after a minute or so. 2) Sound probs,
> part 2: Once i open the tv module, the system will never close the
> connection to the tv card. I can exit mythfrontend, kill the backend, even
> log out, and i get audio from whatever channel i left it on. 3) Video/sound
> mux probs: Im getting the "dubbed kung-foo movie effect" here, all the
> video settings are at 480, rtjpeg, pretty much default options. I cant see
> anything that would make this better. I have a Geforce 4 5200 video card in
> my main desktop at the moment, which i suppose i could swap in, if i can
> figure out how to cleanly swap them.
>
> Any hints/ideas would be great. I need to get this up and running before
> the wife gets back from vacation, to establish a high initial wife approval
> factor (IWAF). Cheers,
> Jim

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