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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>On May 30, 2006, at 8:05 AM, <a href="mailto:cweisiger@i-55.com">cweisiger@i-55.com</a> wrote:<br><br>
> I have a pvr-150(non-mce) and a pvr-350 in my system.<br>><br>> The sound quality is wonderful on my pvr-350, of which I<br>> have the coax cable hooked directly to it.<br>><br>> The pvr-150(non-mce) has my cable box hooked to it using
<br>> the composite(yellow, red, white). The picture quality is<br>> great but the sound is scratchy, with a slight hissing sound.<br>> Could this be that the sound is going from the red, white jacks<br>> to the single sound input of the pvr-150.
<br><br>What is the sound like coming directly from the cable box? If that's<br>bad the card will not fix it. The "single sound input" of the PVR-150<br>is just the two channels in one connector, the connector type will
<br>not directly cause the sound to be poor.<br><br>Many cable boxes have a sound level control, usually set with the<br>remote. Be sure that you have set that to a reasonable setting,<br>probably near the middle of the range or a bit higher.
<br><br>I have a satellite receiver going directly into a PVR-150 and it<br>sounds as good as the audio output of the receiver is to start with.<br><br>As was mentioned, be sure you are using decent cables.<br><br>><br>
> Would the sound quality be better with a pvr-150 MCE version?<br><br>No. Although the MCE uses two RCA connectors instead of the one 1/8"<br>jack of the non-MCE version, audio quality should be the same as far<br>
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<div><br>This sounds like it might be the "tinny audio" issue discussed on the ivtv-user list. Search the archives of that list for details. As far as I know there is no fix yet. What I found was that setting the audio input on the command line with ivtvctl fixes the issue, temporarily. Something like:
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<div>Check the manual for ivtvctl and make sure the parameters are correct. I have a script that runs every minute via cron and loops for 55 seconds running this command every 5 seconds. Kinda lame but it works for me.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Rob Anderson<br><a href="mailto:riznob@gmail.com">riznob@gmail.com</a> </div>