[mythtv-users] garbled sound from Fireware stream

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Tim Shannon <shannon.timothy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just recently switch providers from satellite to cable so I could get
> HD, and I've got everything working great, except for my audio is coming
> through garbled on anything coming over the firewire from the cable box.  My
> old records play fine, and the new firewire hd recordings play find in
> mplayer and xine.
>
> I've messed with all of the audio settings in Mythtv, and nothing seems to
> fix it.

Are you using AC3/DTS passthrough over SPDIF?  Try disabling that and
see if that makes a difference.

Eric