[mythtv-users] Horrible Audio Problems on Video Glitch

[Cal]

Bryan Murphy wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 5:18 AM, Brion Swanson <brions at usalug.net> wrote:
>> My neighbor swears by this DB-2 antenna:
>> http://www.antennasdirect.com/DB2_Indoor_antenna.html
>>
>> He lives in a city home with the antenna on the first floor and lots of
>> reflection.  Supposedly it does a very good job of canceling reflected
>> signals and is designed primarily for HDTV on the UHF band. I don't
>> believe it's powered.
>>
>> Maybe it's worth checking out?
>>
>> Brion
> 
> Thanks.  These are all great suggestions, and give me something to
> think.  However, I'm still concerned as none of these really address
> the underlying issue:  why does MythTV screech when mplayer does not?
>  I could have the best antenna in the world, but with the right
> atmosphere conditions the video will probably still occasionally
> glitch.
> 
> I'm thinking their has got to be some option somewhere, maybe an
> ffmpeg build option or an alternative to ffmpeg that causes it to
> handle the audio stream better, or mute when it detects something
> crazy.
> 
> As a side note, I occasionally got the screeching sound when fast
> forwarding/rewinding an audio stream (and this was before I upgraded
> to the HD card).  Back then it happened so infrequently that it didn't
> really bother me, but it did happen.  That indicates to me that no
> matter how good the signal was (I recorded all that video directly off
> of my cable box), MythTV still does something funky with the audio
> stream mplayer shows us that we can clearly address it.

Indeed. Despite the off-topic thread hijack efforts, _only_ mythtv
screeches. Therefore it would appear to be quite possible to solve the
problem from a technical perspective, and mythtv's audio handling would
appear to be doing something sub-optimal.