I have been following these "no sound" threads for months. There is still one question unanswered. Does this card work flawlessly under windows using the FlyVideo software???? I find this important because it may identify a hardware problem vs a software problem. If it is a hardware problem then we have all been spinning our wheels. --Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Antliff" <dave.antliff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: Re: saa7134 - the sound of silence - fudged sound. > > We seem to be going around in circles. Everything that's been discussed > on this list with regards to this problem was discussed previously, > several months ago, in pretty much exactly the same way. The radio 'fix' > you've found was discovered and noted some time ago, but it's good that > you can confirm it. I can confirm that it works also, however the audio > level is very low after doing this and I haven't found a way to increase > it without changing the master level. > > Try this also: find a channel with no sound (or in my case I get quite > loud 'white' noise (static) rather than silence) and use the left or right > arrow keys to finetune the channel one way or the other. Keep going until > the video signal 'just' disappears (about 10 steps here in NZ), then > return with the other arrow key to the correct frequency. In almost all > cases I get sound back - what about other people? > > There's another problem too which has been discussed a little but perhaps > not enough - leave motv running for a long time on an X server that's been > running for while (not sure exactly how long but > 1 day it seems) and > watch the motv picture disappear completely (black screen). Attempts to > capture a stream with vcr or mp1e after this fail with an error message > (can't tell you what it is because I can't easily reproduce the problem at > the moment). The only way I've been able to fix this is with a *cold* > reboot - warm reboot doesn't fix it. Long recordings with mp1e can > sometimes cause it too - causing them to abort at some point. When I have > time I may investigate this further and try and pin down a pattern - is > anyone else seeing this happen? > > > Dave. > > > > I've just been mesing around with xawtv and I've managed to get sound > > going, altho it is very much a fudge and I don't really consider it a > > fix in any way shape or form (2.4.18 kernel) > > > > Start up xawtv and set it to the TV channel you want. > > > > Now start up "radio" that comes with xawtv. (I had no presets for > > "radio"; the frequency it started up on was "0.00") > > > > You should find that the station that is tuned in on the radio is the tv > > channel you are watching. > > > > Main problem is that to change the channel you have to quit both apps > > and restart them. > > > > Can anyone else confirm this? > > > > -- > > James Budworth > > tsuki_yomi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
