[mythtv-users] The strangest behaviour

[Phil Bridges]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Phil Wild<philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to determine what has happened to my audio...
>
> Everything has been working fine for months, but now, all of a sudden,
> audio is playing up.
>
> Audio on standard definition transmission live TV and recordings are
> fine. Anything that is high definition does not work.
> Well, about 95% of the time there is nothing and then I get about a
> second of audio before nothing again.
>
> I am connected using SP-DIF between mythfrontend and hi-fi receiver.
>
> If I look at the optical cable, I can see the red light so it is transmitting.
>
>
> Has anyone seen this type of behaviour before?
>
> Anyone suggestions on how to further debug this would be great...
>

Do you have the "Extra Audio Buffering" turned on?  This same thing
recently happened to me.