[mythtv-users] Record protection ?

[Mike Perkins]

lanas wrote:
> All,
> 
>   Is there some kind of record protection to be found now on certain
> cable TV channels ?  I'm asking because I'm puzzled by the poor
> crackling sound of one recorded program, two weeks in a row.  The video
> is fine, but the sound is not pleasant at all.  On the same channel,
> and hour and a half before that show, another show recorded just fine.
> All of the shows since two weeks are recording fine except for that
> one.  Other shows from the same channel records fine.
> 
>   So before I start to think that Mythdora/Linux/the computer has some
> problem I'm wondering if there's some kind of record protection that is
> starting to be used.  
> 
Crackling sound implies that the audio part of the recording might be in a 
different format from those recordings which don't crackle. I've seen numerous 
entries here from people who get crackling when the audio is not compatible with 
their current output method.

Sorry to be so vague, it doesn't happen to me.

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Mike Perkins