[mythtv-users] Re: weird problem with sound / pvr350 and new mobo

[zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx]

any input ?

I installed on a second hdd FC2 following jarods guide. kernel 2.6.8.-1.521.
same issue......

--z

On Monday 01 November 2004 14:53, zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I need some thoughts. On my old system, a sis based mobo from msi with an
> old celeron 2gig I was using the pvr-350 tv out with success. in detail it
> was recording & playback of recordings perfect, but when watching dvd-rips
> the sound was 'with digital birds' in the background (don' know how to
> explain in english), say 'chilp/chilp' as 'noise'. I was using the 'use
> pvr350 tvout' in myth. so easy and dirty workaround was to use mplayer
> 0.9something for this. (of course ivtv-fb with ivtvdev.o for X). worked
> good.
> since the old h/w was to loud (you may remember my threads ;-), I switched
> to a new mobo (asus p4r800vm) with a celeron 2.6gig. took the old harddisk
> over to the new mobo, needed to tweak some chipset specific things.
> dmesg tells me that drives use dma, hdparm reports something around 55mb,
> so should be fine.
> on the old system, i used oss, now for the new mobo I needed to switch to
> alsa.
> again, tv, recording and playback of recording works like a charm, but dvd
> rips have the same 'noise' like before when using myth, but mplayer doesn't
> work no more. the picture is choppy, sound is running a way in front the
> video, the longer you watch, the worser it gets. but even if it would be in
> sync, the picture is choppy. I don't get it since the h/w is much younger
> and more powerfull than the old one. also tried mplayer 1.0something, same
> story. then I thought I would be a smart guy, just tell myth to use
> ALSA:default instead of /dev/dsp, but same noise.....
>
> what am i missing here ?
>
> thanks for your help
> ---z