[mythtv-users] Live TV stuck on SAP

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:28:27 -0800, you wrote:

>On 1/17/23 09:43, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> I believe there is a key mapped to change this setting, I've fat-fingered it (somewhere around P and zero ) and just stopped 
>> and started the recording to get back to English.
>
>There is a key mapped It is the '+' key, or the '-' key. The '-' is near "P" and "0". For some reason that key is now working, 
>and the audio channel option is appearing in the audio menu.
>
>I know that two audio channels were being broadcast during the game, because I tested this with a second TV.
>
>I stopped and started the live TV multiple times, even to the point of going to the backend setup looking for some way to switch 
>back to the English audio.
>
>I did not get back to English audio until I went into the Front End settings and looked through the key mappings (how I found 
>the '-' and '+' key mappings) I went back into video intending to try these keys, and without touching the '+', or '-' keys, I 
>was back to English audio. At that time, I tried the '+' and '-' keys, and it brought up a display showing the audio channel, 
>but would not switch audio channels.
>
>When I read in this thread about the option in the audio menu, I went looking for that, but it was not there.I replied saying as 
>much in this thread. I had looked in that menu multiple times before as I figured it was the most likely place to find a way to 
>switch audio channels, but never found that option. Only the option to adjust lip sync.
>
>I had exited live video accidentally and restarted it after sending that e-mail, and magically, the option to change audio 
>channels appeared in the audio menu, and the '+' and '-' keys started working.
>
>My guess is that I ran into an obscure bug that will be difficult to reproduce.

It certainly sounds like that.  My first guess as to a trigger for the
bug would be that when the recording was started, there was something
being broadcast that only had Spanish audio (an advertisement?), and
when the English audio came back later it was missed.  The LiveTV
recording will likely be long deleted by now (depending on your
settings), but if it happens again, it would be a good idea to find
the name of the recording file and take a copy of it before it gets
deleted.  If you use the I key on a recording, it should show the
"Recorded file name" towards the bottom of the page.  However, things
may be more complicated for LiveTV - I think it used to used multiple
files if you changed channel during the recording.