[mythtv-users] Upgrade and problems with 32kHz audio

[Ray]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/08/2009 03:15 AM, Ray wrote:
>>>> Ray wrote:
>>>>> I recently upgraded to the latest Mythtv version and I'm having 
>>>>> problems with some of my older recordings that were recorded with 
>>>>> an audio sampling rate of 32000 Hz.  These are Mpeg4 files from a 
>>>>> bt878 card and probably using btaudio (they were recorded back in 
>>>>> 2003 & 2004).  The videos play fast and the audio sounds like 
>>>>> chipmunks.  My recent recordings done with a PVR-500 card play 
>>>>> just fine.  I tried transcoding one of these problem videos with a 
>>>>> profile that specifies 48kHz audio sample rate but mythtranscode 
>>>>> just copied the audio.  I've tried setting playback to "use video 
>>>>> as time base but that didn't help either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there anything I can do to either get Mythtv to play these 
>>>>> shows correctly or to transcode them into something Myth will play? 
>>
>> That may be, I did upgrade my OS from Debian "Sarge" to Debian "Etch" 
>> at the same time as the Mythtv upgrade so it's possible that the 
>> newer Alsa code requires a different config file however these files 
>> really did play just fine in Myth for the past 5 years on this 
>> computer.  FWIW I have Myth set to use "ALSA:default" for it's output 
>> and mplayer seems to handle these same files just fine with -ao 
>> alsa:device=default which should be the same in terms of the audio 
>> path shouldn't it?  I'm also having these same symptoms when using my 
>> laptop for the front end.  The laptop is a bog standard Ubuntu 8.10 
>> and it's old enough hardware to be analog only.
>
> Is the new Debian using Pulse or some other unsupported sound server?
No, at least not enabled.  The main Debian system has arts installed but 
disabled and the Ubuntu laptop has pulse but also disabled.

-- 
Ray