[mythtv-users] sound cutting out?

[nate s]

I didn't notice if you listed what type of captrue card you're using? 
pvr2/350 or bbtv?  As your reading from /dev/dsp I'd guess that means
your using a software encoder with a cable to the soundcard?

You might try enabling the 'use video as a timebase' option.  

What happens if you use mplayer to play back the recorded nuv?

Also, about the problem you mentioned with devfs creating devices,
since your on gentoo anyways, I'd recommend you use a 2.6 kernel and
udev.  Udev is much easier to get to create custom device nodes, and
there are some very good howtos on the gentoo forums.  And who know,
with the new kernel (with included alsa drivers,) the problem may just
solve itself.  ck-sources might be a good first-time 2.6 kernel.

-Nate

PS... should be possiable but a better solution would be to switch to
mozilla thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/;
outlook express like) or evolution
(http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/; outlook like, and can
connect to m$ exchange) or I even have some gmail invites left if you
want one, which might be handy if this is from work or something.

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:00:31 +0000, Prash <getprashman at gmail.com> wrote:
> <Quote>
> Now with 0.16 (and it seems to be getting more and more often), the
> sound will quit, sometimes between shows, sometimes in the middle of
> shows; it doesn't even matter if you're recording only or doing
> playback&recording  or just playback (though just playback seems to
> provoke the beastie less).
> </Quote>
> 
> I have the same problem and I haven't been able to find a solution. I
> have increased the debug level to 255 in ivtv but nothing there. It
> looks to be a playback problem because if you set PVR350 to hardware
> decode and view on TV - it works fine. I have a celeron processor 2.4
> on Asus Pundit-R. Sometimes when playing back the recordint it seems
> to auto forward for a few seconds intermittently.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:27:52 -0500, Johnson, Thor <tjohnson at prenova.com> wrote:
> >
> > Argh...
> >
> > My mythbox (nForce1, onboard video & sound) was working perfectly until
> > 0.15... at 0.15 sometimes the sound would flake out (funny pitches, volume
> > would jump around), but it was kinda OK (and it seemed to happen mostly when
> > the other parts of the PC went berserk).
> >
> > Now with 0.16 (and it seems to be getting more and more often), the sound
> > will quit, sometimes between shows, sometimes in the middle of shows; it
> > doesn't even matter if you're recording only or doing playback&recording  or
> > just playback (though just playback seems to provoke the beastie less).
> >
> > When it happens, I get the message "only read -1 bytes from /dev/dsp" on the
> > mythbackend log (I put a tail on the file and auto-reboot... but today it
> > has been rebooting every 5 minutes or so it seems).
> >
> > My system:
> >   MSI odd-brand nForce1 board with 1 PCI slot (had to disable ACPI to get it
> > to cooperate)
> >   Onboard nForce sound/video/net, using alsa-0.9.0, nvidia drivers, and
> > nvnet -- not trying SPDIF yet...
> >   Gentoo linux Linux version 2.4.20-gaming-r3 kernel compiled w/GCC 3.2.3
> >   /mnt/storage 100GB XFS partition, now constanly 90-98% full...
> >
> > I've tried:
> >   Using nvidia's sound module (got lost trying to get devfs to make the
> > devices)
> >   Using alsa:default for the mythfrontend (same problem)
> >   Using alsa:default for mythbackend(couldn't get it to take...)
> >   Using "Aggressive Soundcard Buffering"-- seemed to make the problem worse
> >
> > Questions:
> >   1. Am I just making a stupid mistake? (where please ;)
> >   2. Is there a good way to debug these kinds of things (not a crash... just
> > sound quits)?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Thor Johnson
> >
> > PS... anyone know how to get outlook web access to do plain text?
> >  
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