[mythtv-users] I am having some audio problems.

[Mark Knecht]

On 12/17/05, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I am having some audio problems.  Sound sometimes stays muted (?) when
> switching to a channel.  A change back and forward from another video
> card, or exit live TV and reenter that mode and sound is fine.  This is
> annoying, but I can live with it.  However, whats worse is that some
> recordings lose sound part way through.  In particular, a daily news
> program loses sound just as the weather report starts - wierd as its
> hard to see something in a video signal causing the audio to switch off
> at this point in a recording every day!  Other programs also sometimes
> have the same problem.  There is no problem with the sound (alsa)
> system, and exiting the recording and after going to live TV its ok
> (same program, sound can go while watching the recording as its being
> made).
>
> I am sure I have seen others with this problem, but I cant find a cure.
>
> BillK
>

Bill,
   Hi. A very common audio problem we have is when starting any
recording we are likely to get no sound. We find that

1) If we let it run about 15-20 seconds we start getting sound

or more interesting

2) If we hit the back up button (left arrow) we get sound immediately!

This happens on multiple Myth servers and multiple backends, all running Gentoo.

- Mark