[mythtv-users] muted volume until channel change

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 01 August 2003 12:38 am, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> I have this wierd bug where mythtv mutes the audio until the channel is
> changed.  Thus, only Live TV is possible, and recording results in muted
> audio.  I debugged until I was blue in the face, but all I could see is
> that mythtv does exactly the same thing as xawtv (but xawtv doesn't have
> this problem).
>
> My own fix is attached - a patch to NupperVideoRecorder.cpp to set the
> channel ioctl with the same values we just read from the ioctl a few
> lines back - i.e. set the channel to the current channel please!  It
> appears the audio ioctl on the previous line will mute the audio no
> matter whether we are trying to or not :-(
>
> The card is a Pixelview PV-BT878P+9B, module options are:
>
> options bttv card=72 radio=1
> pre-install bttv insmod tuner type=5
>
> Anybody have the same problem and come up with a solution?

Your patch seems fine to me, I'll get it committed to CVS soon.

Isaac