[mythtvnz] Off Topic - CCTV cameras

[Steve Hodge]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:40 +1200, Steve Hodge wrote:
> > The audio gets very distorted and full of static when starting a
> > recording. It's apparently not that unusual as I easily found a
> > work-around on the net: resetting the audio with
> > v4l2-ctl --set-audio-input 1 -d /dev/video0
> > fixes the problem. But it didn't used to exhibit the issue at all and
> > then for a while it was intermittent. So I suspect the hardware. And
> > there has been one case where resetting the audio didn't work and I
> > had to reboot to fix it.
>
> Tinny audio is an annoying IVTV driver bug that's been around and back
> again for ages. I've seen it on three out of four systems myself at
> varying rates of intermittent-ness and frequency which also changes with
> kernel versions. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was this.
>

It's possible though it's a lot worse than just "tinny". I don't upgrade my
kernel very often and I'm pretty sure it's gotten worse between upgrades.

The card is at least 5 years old and IIRC I might have picked it up second
hand even then. The system had heat issues for a while too.

Cheers,
Steve
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