[mythtv-users] HD-PVR missing SPDIF audio

[Michael Rice]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Ken Bass <kbass at kenbass.com> wrote:
> Has anyone found a solution for the HD-PVR missing SPDIF audio problem?
>
> At various intervals, mythtv starts recording and I end up with a datastream
> that has video but no audio.
>
> Its been like this for more than a year. I recently upgraded to 0.24-fixes
> from 0.23 hoping it might make a difference, but it still happens quite
> frequently (perhaps every day or two).
>
> Just today a program recorded at 3:00PM with no audio. I simply deleted the
> recording at 3:30 when I verified no audio. At 4:00PM on the same
> tuner/channel, audio worked. This was even without a reset/reboot.

Have you tried sleeping a second or two in your channel change script?
Since I did that I've had no recordings without audio.

See: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/467305