[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
tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net
http://strangesoft.net
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