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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Craig Courtney <<a href="mailto:craig@dawnsedge.com">craig@dawnsedge.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:10 AM, matt lutz <<a href="mailto:myth.matt.lutz@gmail.com" target="_blank">myth.matt.lutz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">switched between onboard sound (snd_hda_intel on M2N-E motherboard) and a USB turtlebeach sound card w/ optical spdif<br>
AC3 or DTS passthrough work fine<br>mplayer has the same problem that myth does. I thought VLC was fine, but it (while much better) also seems to be a problem. <br><br>The problem itself is basically a horrible distortion in sound for anything other than AC3/DTS passthrough. It's worked for about 6 months before I tried ripping some DVDs last week, and ever since then, I've had the problem. <br>
<br>I've tried everything on the thread referenced above, as well as completely uninstalling snd-base & alsa-base, and re-installing. Nothing seems to work. My only next step is to completely rebuild my server, but as this is also my master backend, I'd REALLY rather not do that. <br>
<br>Does anyone have any suggestions?<br></blockquote></div>
<div><br>Are you sure it's the sound output that's a problem or is it the file itself that has distortion?<br>Is it all media or only new tv shows that have problems, do you have any older shows that play fine?<br>
<br>I do have a problem with the latest IVTV drivers recording with extreme distortion on my machine which forced me to rellback to previous versions and deal with occasional DMA lockups. My backend is run on CentOS 5.1 using the ATRPMS video4linux packages. I can't get to atrpms or my mythtv server right now to give exact packages but the july of 07 version of video4linux and video4linux-ivtv work for me but the december ones cause distortion problems for recordings.<br>
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<div>Thanks to all for your replies. </div>
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<div>There aren't any mixer settings for the USB audio, which I'm currently using. I could go back to the onboard sound and play with those levels, but I did do that originally and didn't see much of a difference. I may try again though.</div>
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<div>I'm only playing one type of media at a time, so I don't think they're stepping on each other.</div>
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<div>It's definately not hte recordings. This happens on recordings that I know are good that I previously recorded, and my other frontends do not have a problem with current (or previous) recordings.</div>
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<div>thanks for your help guys. I guess I'll just rebuild the damn thing. It's just frustrating because I feel like I should be able to figure this out.</div>
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<div>Matt</div>
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