[mythtv-users] Sometimes sound does not record - recent problem

Mike Jasper e394td at comcast.net
Mon Nov 1 06:54:29 UTC 2004


Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:51, Mike Jasper wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been using mythtv successfully for many months, enjoying the heck 
>>out of it.  I'm running the latest ATrpms packages on FC1 (thanks Axel 
>>and Jarod), on a box with dual PVR-250s.  It's been running flawlessly 
>>for months.
>>
>>Two nights ago, the Daily Show recorded with no audio.  I figured it was 
>>a fluke, maybe a problem with the cable signal.  Then tonight, three 
>>shows recorded with no audio.  However, other shows recorded just fine 
>>earlier, with perfect audio.  It's intermittent.  Like just now I went 
>>to try "Watch TV" and the first channel (TNT) had no audio.  I went up a 
>>channel, and the audio suddenly kicked in.  Then I went back to TNT and 
>>the audio continued to work.
>>
>>I did an apt-get upgrade a few days ago, and I'm wondering if maybe 
>>something got upgraded that's causing the problem.  I'll paste some 
>>package versions below.  I'm not sure what was upgraded most recently, 
>>although I'm pretty sure ivtv was.  Could ivtv have anything to do with 
>>this?  Perhaps I should downgrade to 0.1.9.  Can anyone help me figure 
>>out what might be wrong?  I've tried rebooting, different combinations 
>>of recording/playback, etc.
> 
> 
> Put this line in your modules.conf:
> alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
> 
> I forget the reason but Axel posted this a couple of weeks ago (see the
> archives).

Thanks, that seemed to do the trick.  After some digging I found Axel's 
post on the ivtv list.

Mike


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