[mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings

[Jonathan Markevich]

Chris wrote:

> I have the same problem.  When watching live TV, if I change the 
> channel the sound comes on. I have a lot of recordings that don't have 
> sound. After getting an episode or two of West Wing with no sound my 
> wife is not recording with the VCR as a backup.  WAF is going down.
>
>  This seemed to happen after I did a distribution updagte, so I assume 
> it is a driver issue.
>
> As a work around, I use a cronjob to unmute the driver.  I was doing 
> it every half hour, but sometimes that didn't work if I was watching 
> something else at the same time.  So now I do it every minute in my 
> crontab.
>
> * * * * * ivtvctl -y mute=0 > /dev/null
>
> I am going to try upgrading ivtv soon to see if the problem gets fixed.
>
>
> On 10/30/2004 2:09 PM, Justin Malcolm wrote:
>
>> I have been a myth user for a while now but have recently developed some
>> real stability problems.  The worst one is that many of my recordings 
>> now
>> have no sound.  Sometimes I have no sound when I go to live tv as well.
>> It is not all the time.
>>
>> I have a Hauppage 250 and capture from cable.
>>
>> Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>>
I have the same problem every once in a while, but a) I don't have a 
pvr250 (I use a bttv card) and b) I don't use ALSA.  You might be 
looking in the wrong direction...

Are there any other possibilities?