[mythtv-users] Occasional missing audio from recordings
jose rubio
debian at nc.rr.com
Wed Dec 3 09:09:01 EST 2003
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:44, Doug Scoular wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a Shuttle SB61G2 with a Hauppauge PVR-350 and
> NVidia GeForce 4 440MX for TV-out. I'm using gentoo 1.4
> with a 2.4.21 kernel and the latest IVTV drivers/firmware
> and MythTV 0.12.
>
> MythTV works wonderfully well on the above setup with
> one remaining issue.
>
> Occasionally I get no audio on a scheduled recording. This
> has been the case on MythTV 0.11 and 0.12. Most of
> the time the loss of audio on a scheduled recording causes
> live TV to also lose audio, however this is not always the
> case. Sometimes the loss of audio is limited to the
> one scheduled recording, subsequent recordings being
> fine and live tv unaffected.
>
> If I lose audio on live tv I can fix it by killing mythbackend
> and restarting it. This always fixes the problem... which indicates
> that the IVTV driver has no problem re-initialising.
>
> I had thought this might be due to some KDE app holding
> open the dsp device but I've disabled all arts binaries
> by making them non-executable. I've also tried running
> under twm, but all to no avail. There's nothing in the
> mythbackend logs to indicate a problem.
>
> I haven't seen anyone else mention this problem on the
> list so I'm stumped.
>
> I do get about less than a second of white noise at
> the start of playback on these "no audio" recordings.
>
> Any ideas much appreciated...
>
> Doug
>
It happens, although I've never seen it happen during live tv. I
believe it's an ivtv problem, just waiting for the newest driver to come
out and see if that fixes it.
-jose-
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