[mythtv-users] Alternate audio input (PVR-150)?

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
> I am using the PVR-150 with my Mythbuntu box and everything works very
> well. There is one issue that seems to be related to the PVR-150
> hardware and that is distorted captured audio.
>
> I am using a DirecTV receiver with S-Video and line audio to the
> PVR-150. Thinking this issue over, it seems to me that if the DirecTV
> audio could be captured from the sound board (SB PCI Live!) then
> perhaps this issue could be resolved. After checking the backend setup
> and the recording profile sections I don't see an option for capturing
> the DirecTV audio from a source other than the PVR-150.
>
> Is capturing TV audio from another input not possible?  I'm thinking so
> since the PVR-150 does MPEG2 encoding on the card.
>

Sounds like this would be guaranteed that your AV will be out of sync.

What is wrong with your audio? There have been several problems in the
past but fixed with more recent kernels. Are you using a kernel less
than 2.6.24?

John