[mythtv-users] Live Audio

Russ Neufeld Russ at neuf.ca
Tue Apr 20 18:20:47 EDT 2004


Common - nobody can give me a place to start looking? I've got
audio/video on mpg/avi file playback, but a picture/no audio on
live/recorded TV. I hear a pop when live TV or playback of recorded
video starts and when it stops, and that's it. Ideas? Just a newbie
trying to understand...

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:49, Russ Neufeld wrote:
> I'm an IT staffer by profession, but a relative newbie to both Linux and
> MythTV, and I'm trying to build my first Mythbox based on Jarod's How-To.
>  
> I've got a running system, updated, myth installed and config'd, and most
> parts work fine. But I must be missing something, and after too many
> evenings (weeks) searching the docs and archives for this list, I've gotta
> just ask: how do I troubleshoot my audio problems?
>  
> Here's what I've got - Albatron MB (onboard Realtec audio), AverMedia
> TVStudio (BT878) card, etc... in a Athlon box.
> What works:
>     audio playback (MP3, AVI/MPG video, DVD, etc), both inside and outside
> MythFrontEnd
>     video playback, again, both inside and out of MythFrontEnd
>  
> What doesn't:
>     Live TV audio - I can hear the audio on the line-in from the tuner card
> if I un-mute it, but it's several seconds ahead, of course.
>  
> Something odd I've found is that if I load xawtv, it messes up my tuner
> (sync is wrong, goes b/w with v-scroll half way up the screen), and mythtv
> is then messed up as well and I have to power the system down to reset.
> MythTV before xawtv seems fine (besides no audio). I've used Yves Glodt's
> script to find options for my vid.card, but it just returns similar stuff to
> Jarod's suggestions in his How-To. I've changed my modules.conf file some,
> commenting out some options, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
>  
> Can someone help me understand how to sort this out? I've come a long way
> since building the box, but still don't know much about troubleshooting this
> kind of stuff in Linux.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Russ 
> 
> Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity.
> - Anonymous
> 
> 
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