[mythtv-users] pvr-350 sound issues

Matthew Daubenspeck matt at oddprocess.org
Fri May 23 14:59:26 EDT 2003


On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0700, John Kinsella wrote:
> Yeah, I don't think(hope) that MythTV is encoding the audio, should be
> part of the mp2 stream.  But, Leigh kickstarted my brain (maybe it's the
> sleep ;) so I started tinkering with the setup stuff for record and
> playback.  Once I changed the audio out device from /dev/adsp to
> /dev/sound/dsp, I realized how people felt when they first saw a film
> with sound synced to it. ;)
> 
> So, thanks for the thoughts - what I'm left with is a functioning
> system, except mythtv is taking up 85% of my cpu(celeron 1.1ghz) causing
> a load of about 1.6, which is resulting in a bit of audio skipping.
> Will tinker with that, seems like the the load shouldn't be that high on
> a CPU this fast(thought people had run on slower) but I'll investigate
> that myself.
> 
> btw fwiw I've gotten this running on Gentoo Linux, more than happy to
> write up notes for the HOWTO for both mythtv and the ivtv projects.

Please do, as this is exactly what I plan to use for my soon-to-be-built
system :)


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