Volume problem in SageTV2

[Lester Jacobs]

Sometimes when I choose a show to watch from the LiveTV guide, it starts up with no volume. At this point I try one of a few options:

1) Changing the channel (this sometimes works and sometimes not to restore the volume). Note that this is complicated by the fact that I have a dual tuner PVR250 system and so normally during channel changes SageTV appears to round robin on the tuners and thus you normally can't be sure you are going against the same tuner all of the time. However I solve this by setting up manual recordings for the second tuner thus forcing SageTV to continally use the same tuner during channel changes. Same result, sometime this works and sometimes not to restore the volume).

2) Use the "Close File" option then retune to the same channel. This always works to restore the volume.

So it appears that the volume problem is somehow related to initialization of the encode card.

I am using the latest drivers from Hauppauge (1.8), SageTV 2.0.19 (final release), Sonic DVD Decoder Pack and a dual tuner PVR250 system. Other than this occasional volume problem, everything else seems to be working fine.

Anyone encountered this and have any suggestions?

I did search the forum for posts related to volume issues but did not find anything that appeared to solve my problem.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers
Lester

[Opus4]

Are you sure this is different from the problem where sound cuts out from time to time when I simply ff? I get sound back by using a rew. I guess my question is: can you simply do a ff/rew to get sound back?

- Andy

[falchulk]

Lester Jacobs, I had that happen all the time in the betas. Opening another recording restores the sound also. Then when you go back to the original, it works again. I have not seen this lately though.

[Lester Jacobs]

Definitely different. FF/REW does not return the sound in this case. I do have instances of the case where FF/REW does return volume but this problem I've described ONLY occurs when you initially start to watch a show.

Under 1.4.10 I also recently had instances where the sound on recordings was also absent which I suspect is a variant of the problem I described but I haven't seen this under 2.0.19 yet.

Cheers
Lester

[gplasky]

You may want to change your audio renderer from default to directsound or wave. (or from what it is now to one of the others.) If you haven't tried that already.

Gerry

[mbrown3]

Yeah, why does that ff/rew sound thing happen? It's weird...

[Lester Jacobs]

Originally posted by gplasky
You may want to change your audio renderer from default to directsound or wave. (or from what it is now to one of the others.) If you haven't tried that already.

Gerry

Good idea, I never thought of that. I've switched it from 'default' to 'DirectSound' and I'll monitor over the next few days to see if this has any effect.

Thx
Lester

[kny3twalker]

try out using the newest version of AC3 filter
it is nice and free
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...ight=ac3filter

[Lester Jacobs]

Originally posted by Lester Jacobs
Good idea, I never thought of that. I've switched it from 'default' to 'DirectSound' and I'll monitor over the next few days to see if this has any effect.

Thx
Lester

Ok, that didn't work. Still have the same issue.

Lester

[Lester Jacobs]

Update:

I switched from the Sonic decoder pack to the Hauppauge Non-CSS Intervideo decoder pack and the volume problem APPEARS to have been resolved. I'll know over the next few days whether this is the case or not.

As a side effect, this change seems to have cured a problem I was having with DVD playback as well. I still use the Sonic decoder pack for DVD playback but now the occasional black screen problem I used to get at the beginning of DVD playback seems to have been fixed.


Cheers
Lester