[mythtv-users] Playback too Fast

[Michael T. Dean]

Kerry Baker wrote:

>This seems to be a common problem but I haven't managed to find a solution 
>that works for me.
>Playback is too fast and talking sounds like chipmunks.
>It occurs when watching live tv causing an added problem of stuttering as it 
>appears to outrun the recording buffer and I get "prebuffering pause" errors 
>in the mythfrontend log.
>It also happens with recordings but without stuttering.
>The recording itself is okay as I can play it very nicely using Xine (with "-V 
>xxmc" option for hardware decoding).
>  
>
You're playing back a recording with 32KHz audio on a "software" 
soundcard that accepts 48KHz input.  Fix your sound card configuration 
so that the ALSA drivers convert your 32KHz audio to 48KHz input for 
your sound card.  See: 
http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo#head-b318f22131b4a59eef5f28edfac9160204e13719

Mike