<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Steve Hodge <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, <<a href="mailto:criggie@criggie.dyndns.org">criggie@criggie.dyndns.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> It does have mono audio in, but none of my cameras have microphones so<br>
>> its really irrelevant to me.<br>
><br>
> Ah, that's a problem. I don't think I'd be willing to live with mono. I<br>
> guess it would be possible to record the audio separately and then remux it<br>
> into the h.264 stream but it'd be hard to get the sync right.<br>
><br>
>> The PVR150 is a nice card - what's wrong with yours ?<br>
><br>
> The audio gets very distorted and full of static when starting a recording.<br>
> It's apparently not that unusual as I easily found a work-around on the net:<br>
> resetting the audio with<br>
> v4l2-ctl --set-audio-input 1 -d /dev/video0<br>
> fixes the problem. But it didn't used to exhibit the issue at all and then<br>
> for a while it was intermittent. So I suspect the hardware. And there has<br>
> been one case where resetting the audio didn't work and I had to reboot to<br>
> fix it.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I had the tinny audio problem, but no longer use the card. Your fix<br>
(cronned to happen every 10 seconds) 'fixed' it.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'm running it in the channel change script - once it's fixed it seems to stay fixed for the duration of a recording.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Steve <br></div></div>