<div>I've been running .20-fixes for quite some time now with very few issues. Over the last week and a half I started encountering audio dropouts every once and awhile (video is rock solid). As time went on the dropouts have become more frequent until it completly goes away. If I exit live TV and come back - the audio returns. The only error messege I get is that after the audio goes away for good, mythfrontend spits out the following error:</div>
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<div>NVP::AddAudioData():p1: Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!</div>
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<div>Well I figured this was as good excuse as any to upgrade to .21, so I downloaded 0.21-fixes today and got it running (I have a few minor things to resolve, but that's another post). Unfortunately, but not surprising, the audio problem is still there.</div>
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<div>I did some experimenting and determined that the problem exists in Mythmusic, playback of recordings (which previously were fine) as well as livetv. Its very definitley a playback issue, most likely in the hardware onboard my motherboard. Bummer (anyone have other thoughts that would make me happier?).</div>
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<div>So now - what are my options?</div>
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<div>New Motherboard? - not cheap as it means a new processor, RAM, and video card - and maybe more as well. </div>
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<div>New audio card - might do the trick if that's where the problem really is.</div>
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<div>Now it turns out that I have a Xitel Hifi-link USB audio interface sitting around and it appears that there is linux support for it. Does anyone have any experience with this and MythTV?</div>
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<div>Am I on the right track or should I be looking elsewhere? Any thoughts would be appretiated.</div>
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<div>Ron</div>
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