[mythtv-users] Re:prebuffering pauses and mythtv 0.13

Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net
Tue Dec 16 17:36:49 EST 2003


On December 16, 2003 03:27 pm, Greg wrote:
> Hey, I've been having your pre-buffer and and my sound would would get
> all distorted.  Someone else posted a fix maybe a week ago.  It was
> using old alsa drivers.  I used alsa-driver-0.9.4 and all my audio
> problems are gone(thank god!!).  It was a pain because I used apt rpms
> to install and it installed alsa packages.  I notice that alot of the
> packages are dependent on alsa, so now every time I update it always
> wants to re-download all the alsa stuff.  So I manually removed all alsa
> packages, downloaded the old alsa drivers, had to edit alot of files to
> get it to compile, and then it all worked.
>
> Just so you know, my computer is...
> Biostar MB - with on-board via-8233 sound
> WinTV-401 dbx
> Fedora Core 1 -- atrpm kenrnel 2.4.22....24
> and i don't think the other stuff is important.
>
> Another note is my sound would mess up within about 5 minutes, some
> channels not as bad.  Comedy Central would mess up almost instantly.  I
> messed with color/brightness and it helped, but did not fix.  Now, I've
> left it on live TV for whole day on Comedy Central and not a single
> problem.

Ok, I suppose downgrading ALSA couldn't hurt. Thnakfully, its not something 
that will take too long. :)

> Hope this helps,
> Greg Long

Me too ;)

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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