[mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings

Phil Bridges phil at gravityhammer.com
Thu Nov 18 04:56:16 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:36 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv; Justin Malcolm
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings
>
>
> I have the same problem.  When watching live TV, if I change the channel
> the sound comes on. I have a lot of recordings that don't have sound.
> After getting an episode or two of West Wing with no sound my wife is
> not recording with the VCR as a backup.  WAF is going down.
>
>   This seemed to happen after I did a distribution updagte, so I assume
> it is a driver issue.
>
> As a work around, I use a cronjob to unmute the driver.  I was doing it
> every half hour, but sometimes that didn't work if I was watching
> something else at the same time.  So now I do it every minute in
> my crontab.
>
> * * * * * ivtvctl -y mute=0 > /dev/null
>
> I am going to try upgrading ivtv soon to see if the problem gets fixed.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 10/30/2004 2:09 PM, Justin Malcolm wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been a myth user for a while now but have recently developed some
> > real stability problems.  The worst one is that many of my
> recordings now
> > have no sound.  Sometimes I have no sound when I go to live tv as well.
> > It is not all the time.
> >
> > I have a Hauppage 250 and capture from cable.
> >
> > Can anybody point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Justin Malcolm
> >
> >
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