On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:01:51 -0500 Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I forget if I've already mentioned this yet... > > I recently started playing around with analog NTSC television again on my system, while trying to help someone solve a problem on their system. In the process I ran into a problem getting cx88-alsa to build with the rest of the v4l-dvb repository. As it turned out, mine was one of the stock Ubuntu kernels that have some odd issue with the I2C configuration. I had to build a vanilla kernel (2.6.26.5), making all the I2C stuff into modules as opposed to built-in. So, that's fixed - cx88-alsa builds and loads OK now. > > However, I have a new problem: > > Something has broken the output that cx88-alsa creates. In the case of my Kworld ATSC 120, radio output on all frequencies has a sort of growling "industrial" noise on top of the actual audio, kinda like the background noise of a manufacturing facility. > > Analog TV on all channels gives clean but very tinny audio, as though the sample rate were really low (~8kHz). > > Since other audio sources are working fine, I can't tell if this is a bug in the kernel, or cx88-alsa, or something else entirely. I've only noticed the problem for a matter of a week or less, so I'm not sure when it started. The problem persists as of today's pull of the v4l-dvb repository. > This may be due to some issue at alsa libraries or at pulseaudio. On some tests I did with alsa, depending on the way you specify a device, you may have noise (I had lots of noise on my alsa microphone input, depending on the syntax I used to specify its input entry). You may specify it as hw: or as plughw:. The difference between them is the way libalsa will handle it, and what is specified on your alsa config files. Cheers, Mauro _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
