[mythtv-users] Sometimes sound does not record - recent problem

Julian Edwards ed at julian-edwards.com
Fri Oct 29 12:57:38 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:51, Mike Jasper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using mythtv successfully for many months, enjoying the heck 
> out of it.  I'm running the latest ATrpms packages on FC1 (thanks Axel 
> and Jarod), on a box with dual PVR-250s.  It's been running flawlessly 
> for months.
> 
> Two nights ago, the Daily Show recorded with no audio.  I figured it was 
> a fluke, maybe a problem with the cable signal.  Then tonight, three 
> shows recorded with no audio.  However, other shows recorded just fine 
> earlier, with perfect audio.  It's intermittent.  Like just now I went 
> to try "Watch TV" and the first channel (TNT) had no audio.  I went up a 
> channel, and the audio suddenly kicked in.  Then I went back to TNT and 
> the audio continued to work.
> 
> I did an apt-get upgrade a few days ago, and I'm wondering if maybe 
> something got upgraded that's causing the problem.  I'll paste some 
> package versions below.  I'm not sure what was upgraded most recently, 
> although I'm pretty sure ivtv was.  Could ivtv have anything to do with 
> this?  Perhaps I should downgrade to 0.1.9.  Can anyone help me figure 
> out what might be wrong?  I've tried rebooting, different combinations 
> of recording/playback, etc.

Put this line in your modules.conf:
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv

I forget the reason but Axel posted this a couple of weeks ago (see the
archives).
-- 
Julian Edwards
http://www.julian-edwards.com/



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