[mythtv-users] sound cutting out?

[Prash]

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Now with 0.16 (and it seems to be getting more and more often), the
sound will quit, sometimes between shows, sometimes in the middle of
shows; it doesn't even matter if you're recording only or doing
playback&recording  or just playback (though just playback seems to
provoke the beastie less).
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I have the same problem and I haven't been able to find a solution. I
have increased the debug level to 255 in ivtv but nothing there. It
looks to be a playback problem because if you set PVR350 to hardware
decode and view on TV - it works fine. I have a celeron processor 2.4
on Asus Pundit-R. Sometimes when playing back the recordint it seems
to auto forward for a few seconds intermittently.



On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:27:52 -0500, Johnson, Thor <tjohnson at prenova.com> wrote:
> 
> Argh...
>  
> My mythbox (nForce1, onboard video & sound) was working perfectly until
> 0.15... at 0.15 sometimes the sound would flake out (funny pitches, volume
> would jump around), but it was kinda OK (and it seemed to happen mostly when
> the other parts of the PC went berserk).
>  
> Now with 0.16 (and it seems to be getting more and more often), the sound
> will quit, sometimes between shows, sometimes in the middle of shows; it
> doesn't even matter if you're recording only or doing playback&recording  or
> just playback (though just playback seems to provoke the beastie less).
>  
> When it happens, I get the message "only read -1 bytes from /dev/dsp" on the
> mythbackend log (I put a tail on the file and auto-reboot... but today it
> has been rebooting every 5 minutes or so it seems).
>  
> My system:
>   MSI odd-brand nForce1 board with 1 PCI slot (had to disable ACPI to get it
> to cooperate)
>   Onboard nForce sound/video/net, using alsa-0.9.0, nvidia drivers, and
> nvnet -- not trying SPDIF yet...
>   Gentoo linux Linux version 2.4.20-gaming-r3 kernel compiled w/GCC 3.2.3
>   /mnt/storage 100GB XFS partition, now constanly 90-98% full...
>  
> I've tried:
>   Using nvidia's sound module (got lost trying to get devfs to make the
> devices)
>   Using alsa:default for the mythfrontend (same problem)
>   Using alsa:default for mythbackend(couldn't get it to take...)
>   Using "Aggressive Soundcard Buffering"-- seemed to make the problem worse
>  
> Questions:
>   1. Am I just making a stupid mistake? (where please ;)
>   2. Is there a good way to debug these kinds of things (not a crash... just
> sound quits)?
>  
> Thanks!
> -Thor Johnson
>  
> PS... anyone know how to get outlook web access to do plain text?
>  
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