[mythtv-users] Does time stretch make your MPEG-2 sound gurgle?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 1:40, Mark Kundinger wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> If I time stretch a recording, the audio seems to get "gurgly" (minor,
> sporadic, pitch or tempo changes).  This is most notable with programs
> that like to do big dramatic musical scores with lots of violins 
> (think 
> West Wing).  The strange part is that even if I set the time stretch
> back to 1.0, the gurgling is still there.  However, if I exit back to
> the menu and re-view the recording, sound is fine.
> 
> Most of my recording is done on a PVR-250, so the recordings are
> MPEG-2.  I have a MJPEG recorder too, and it doesn't *seem* that the
> problem still exists there, although I'm not positive, because I don't
> have as many recordings for that.  For sound output, I'm using the
> Nforce2 sound on my motherboard with Nvidia's driver.
> 
> So, anyone else seen this?  Right now I have no idea where the problem 
> lies. 

What decoding method are you using to play back your MPEG-2 recordings 
(normal/ffmpeg, libmpeg2 or XvMC) ?

-JAC