[mythtv-users] Necessary to remove pulseaudio?

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Fri Jan 6 09:36:37 UTC 2012


On 05/01/2012 20:41, Kevin Ross wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 12:21 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 04/01/2012 15:56, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Paul Gardiner<lists at glidos.net>    wrote:
>>>> My source is DVB so the recordings are in sync. The problem is playback.
>>>> It's not a huge drift, but enough to see lips and words don't match.
>>>> It always resyncs if I hit the back button.
>>> This is definitely not a normal attribute of mythtv.
>> I managed to improve it a fair amount. I've turned off "Extra audio
>> buffering". When I first used mythtv, back several years ago, I
>> needed that set so as to avoid glitches during fade-to-blacks.
>> It seems I don't need it any more. Turning it off helps enormously,
>> but it still isn't quite perfect: I still see a very slight loss of
>> sync between audio and video which I can cure by pressing
>> the back button. It's slight enough now that I can imagine
>> people not noticing it unless closely watching a drummer (say).
>> Are you sure you don't see the same? As I said before, every
>> frontend I've used has shown the same problem.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>
> On one of my frontends (bedroom), I sometimes get the audio sync
> problem.  On this computer, I'm using analog audio (just a pair of
> computer speakers plugged into the computer).  On my living room
> computer hooked up to my A/V receiver via HDMI, I get no sync problems
> whatsoever.  I don't know if analog vs digital audio output has anything
> to do with it.

I wondered that for a while too, but I've been using various digital
connections on two frontends for a while now, and they are just the
same.

Paul


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list