[mythtv-users] Video card update fail

[Allen Edwards]

The list god said that my response was too large so I cut off everything
but my response.
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Thanks so much for all your help.  Hopefully I can get my system working
satisfactorily again.

There is a lot of territory covered here.

The settings of Alsamixer with "line" muted are the same as what worked
with the 6200 card and unmuting "line" does not help and in fact
Alsa:default doesn't play anything. I just tried it to make sure. Not sure
if you picked up on the fact that I only get analog when the Nvidia sound
card is selected in Myth.  As the Nvidia sound card does not have an analog
output I find that strange.  Most of the settings that work on ALSA are
digital outputs.

A bit of history.  With Mythbuntu8 I had a lot of trouble getting SPDIF to
work and when I did I wrote the Digital Audio HowTo which still exists
largely as I wrote it.  But at that time I was not able to get analog and
digital to work at the same time. I had a Surround decoder that I used from
the second SPDIF output on the motherboard.  It is a connector on the MB
and not on the back panel.  But in troubleshooting things I power cycled
the decoder and it never worked again. When I installed Muthbunty 16 I was
able to get SPDIF and Analog at the same time with the 6200 card. That
stopped when the 750 card was installed.  My thought is that I should
remove Pulse Audio but I was able to get analog and SPDIF with Pulse
installed so I have not done it.

The system has one hard disk where the Mythbunty8 initially had one but at
some point I added a second.  It worked fine with one disk.  On the
Mythbuntu8 system we would sometimes record 3 or 4 shows without issue.  On
these latest tests, there was only a single channel being recorded.

Virtually all the source material we watch is 720p.  It is OTA HD @720p
some stations here are 1080i but we tend not to watch them. Therefore, 720p
seemed like the choice that would involve the least conversions.

I found the input name on Mythweb.  It is in the details for the program
for example  "Input Name: 1: MPEG2TS". This would indicate that the tuner
that recorded the shows with problems is turner 1 and it has 100% signal
strength.  Not likely a signal issue although it could be a power supply
issue with the HDHomerun as I have seen that before. I will check that.  I
will also have to look into logging the recordings as suggested.  Seems
like the only way to get an idea of what is going on.

Allen
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