[mythtv-users] Transcoded Programs: Audio Problems

[David A. Mason]

OK, the video quality seems good, but I find that my audio is consistently
garbled (to unintelligibility) after having transcoded a program, and the
application's response to keystrokes seems to lag the longer I leave the
transcoded recording running, until, after a number of seconds of playback,
it hangs (just the app - not the machine).

Launching mythfrontend from a console so that I can read its error output
yields pretty much just normal messages.

Audio playback is perfect with untranscoded programs.

I have tried mp3 encoding at qualities 5 and 7. Oh, wait a second - are the
mp3 qualities also in reverse, with lower numbers being better? (Or perhaps
I'm the only one who think's that's backwards, since I haven't seen anyone
else say anything about it.) I've also tried with no compression - just
copying the stream, right? The result is the same - garbled series of
underwater staccatos.

Anybody encountered and overcome this problem?

Thanks,
DAM