[mythtv-users] sound cutting out?

[Prash]

Thor,

Last night I was fiddling with the settings and did smething that
seems to have fixed it - give this a try. In playback settings, set
the deinterlace on and  Xv on. If aggresive audio buffering is causing
a problem then leave it off. Also make sure the "Capture" value in
alsamixer is set correctly.

BTW are you using accelerated drivers? If not then that may cause a problem.


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:03:03 -0800, nate s <nate.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-users mailing list
> > > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
> >
> >
>