[mythtv-users] hd-pvr problem recording audio after firmware update

JWA jwa at macbidouille.com
Thu Jul 22 03:37:39 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:42, JWA <jwa at macbidouille.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:07, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
>> John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> says:
>>> y best guess based on this info, is that the HD-PVR is trying to
>>> record the audio from the RCA jacks instead of the S/PDIF.  I wonder
>>> if the new firmware requires some sort of protocol change in setting
>>> up the capture inputs.
>>
>> John, as a HD-PVR user I've not seen a single S/PDIF-recording failure
>> in almost two weeks and many dozens of recordings using the 1.5.7.0
>> firmware (just as I didn't before then), except, occasionally, when
>> using Live TV. However, I have always used your #6719 and #6611
>> patches with said firmware. The new firmware may be more
>> timing-sensitive when tuning, or JWA may simply have been unlucky in
>> this regard post-firmware upgrade.
>>
>> JWA, assuming you are not in a position to compile said patches into
>> your Ubuntu packages, try inserting a brief pause at the end of your
>> channel-changing script with 'sleep 1' or 'sleep 1.5'.
>
> Right now I am just using /bin/true, as I was having problems with the
> hdpvr locking up while using lirc for blasting (and I have no firewire
> port).  But I will try creating a script to test it out.
>

I tried adding sleep with a whole bunch of different values, but they
had no effect.  the one thing that i noticed in testing this though,
is that if the channel audio is working it will keep working until i
change the channel on the cable box.


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