[mythtvnz] Various MythTV issues

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:42:02 +1200 (NZST), you wrote:

>
>On Tue, July 31, 2007 12:46 am, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:53:21 +1200, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I'm slowly finding the time to get our MythTV box up and running.
>>>
>>>The biggest problem at the moment is I cannot get the audio working =
when
>>>watching tv. Current hardware is a Shuttle ST61G4 and a Pinnacle PCTV
>>>Pro tuner card. This tuner has an audio out connection that I have
>>>patched back into the line input of the Shuttle but so far cannot get
>>>the audio through MythTV.
>>>
>>>I have verified that I can get audio out of the Shuttle using =
MythMusic
>>>and that works fine. Also, I have plugged headphones directly into the
>>>tuner card and the audio is there. I've also tried adjusting the =
volume
>>>levels using aumixer but so far no go.
>>>
>>>Currently in the myth settings the audio is configured to come from
>>>/dev/dsp.
>>>
>>>Another thing, when listening to the audio directly from the card, it =
is
>>>  badly out of sync with the picture. I'm assuming this is because of
>>>the buffering MythTV is doing and hoping that when I can get the audio
>>>sorted, this won't be a problem.
>>>
>>>Would appreciate any ideas that people have.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Dave
>>
>> Audio sync problems are often caused by LCD or plasma TVs.  These do
>> considerable computation before displaying a frame, and that takes
>> time.  My Panasonic TX-32LX70A seems to take about 120 ms.  When the
>> sound is coming from the TV speakers, the TV delays the sound to
>> match, but if it is coming from the MythTV audio output, you have to
>> adjust the delay to match the TV.
>
>I've noticed this with the MythTV Internal player, but not when using
>mplayer which is kinda odd.
>
>Steve

I get it on both.