[mythtv-users] Weird audio problem

[Phill Edwards]

> I have a strange problem.  Whenever I restart mythbackend there's no sound
> in live TV or in any recordings.
> 
> I've discovered that if I just restart the backend and leave it, any new
> recordings will not have any sound.  If I watch live TV there will not be
> any sound either.
> 
> The only way around this has been to restart the backend, go to a frontend
> client, go to live TV and change the channel.  Once I change a channel,
> everything works like it should from that point on.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  I don't even know where to start looking

Soudns like the sound modules in modprobe.conf/modules.conf aren't
getting automatically loaded. You could explicitly load them using
some modprobe commands in rc.local.

Regards,
Phill