[mythtv-users] Sound on analog recordings stopped working

voidtrance at comcast.net voidtrance at comcast.net
Wed Oct 28 23:39:44 UTC 2009


Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight and see if it fixes it. From the thread that you pointed me to 
it seems that I might have run that command when the problem happens but with .22 this 
will happen "automatically"? 

Thanks 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Oglesby" <octoberblu3 at gmail.com> 
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:24:07 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Sound on analog recordings stopped working 

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM, <voidtrance at comcast.net> wrote: 
> The source for the PVR-250 is the exact same physical cable that feeds the 
> HDHR. They just record 
> the analog channels (2-31), while the HDHR record all the digital ones. 
> 
> I did not check the TV feed but I did check many of the videos from 
> MythVideo (which 
> experience the same problem and used to work prior to the problem) through 
> my PS3. The sound 
> is definitely still there. 
> 
> The fact that MythVideo videos are experiencing the same problem led me to 
> believe that this is 
> a sound/ALSA problem rather then a cable source problem. 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Mari" <george_mythusers at mari1938.org> 
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:54:26 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Sound on analog recordings stopped working 
> 
> On 10/27/2009 05:54 PM, voidtrance at comcast.net wrote: 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> Recently, something happened on my MythTV system and sound from any analog 
>> (PVR-250) recordings 
>> stopped working. I say stopped working because I can't think of a single 
>> thing that could have caused it. 
>> It used to work fine. Then I went away on a business trip for a while 
>> during which my system was auto-starting, 
>> doing the recordings, and then shutting down. When I came back, things 
>> didn't work. 
>> 
>> I have sound setup through my S/PDIF connector and I have MythTV 
>> configured to do AC3 passthrough 
>> for any digital sound. This works fine because I am able to get sound from 
>> LiveTV through my HDHR and 
>> for any recordings done through the HDHR. 
>> However, when I switch to LiveTV through any of the PVR-250's (I have 3), 
>> there is no sound. The same 
>> happens for recordings done by the PVRs and any videos that don't have 
>> digital sound. 
>> 
> [deleted] 
> 
> Need more info. 
> 
> What's your source that you've plugged into each PVR-250? Analog cable? 
> Satellite settop box? 
> 
> Did you check your source by hooking it up to a TV, to make sure you're 
> still getting sound from it? 
> 

This has come up on the list a couple times now. 

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/49068?do=post_view_threaded#49068 

The short version is this, run 

iecset audio on 

and try again. 
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