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

[James J Tucker]

Umm... err.. My sys clock isnt wrong.... im er... *testing* new 
time-shifting features... i thought that if i asked the question a few years 
before i did the intstall, i might be able to figure it out...  or 
something.
/had to pull the mobo battery out last night to clear a Bios error. :)
-Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maarten" <mythtv at ultratux.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] RE: NewB woes: Sound problems


> 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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