[mythtv-users] Sound card issue

[Peter Osterberg]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Peter Osterberg wrote:
>
>> I've a on-board audiocard with both coax and optical out. I've never 
>> got it to work very well.
>>
>> The card plays perfectly well using analog out, except from the audio 
>> quality...
>>
>> The audio works fine for about 5-10 minutes when using digital out. 
>> After 5-10 minutes the sound disapears for some seconds and comes 
>> back again. This behavior continues until the computer is rebooted. I 
>> started to think that this was driver related. I have a spare Windows 
>> disk for this computer as well and I decided to try if it worked 
>> better in Windows. I have the same problem in Windows so that 
>> eliminates the driver theory.
>> Could this really be hardware related? It doesn't matter if I use 
>> coax or optical in either operating system.
>> I think that it is a bit odd to think that it should be hardware 
>> related since it always works for about 5-10 minutes an then won't 
>> work again until rebooted. The reboot part somewhat directs me to 
>> hardware but why 5-10 minutes. It would last for seconds if it were 
>> some kind of buffer problem.
>
>
> My guess would be bad cable (does this happen with optical out only or 
> are you saying you have both coaxial digital audio and optical out?) 
> or your receiver just doesn't like the signal that the card is 
> outputting.
I have both optical and coax connected to different input sources on the 
amp. I tend to not think that it is the amp since it works for 5-10 
minutes after a reboot of the computer. I also don't think the cables 
are to be blamed since I have tried both optical and coax with the same 
result, it works for some minutes...