Hi Jim,

Thank you very, very much!  I was under the impression that I *was* running
the latest firmware!  That's what I get for assuming.  ;-)

Once I swapped in the revision you mentioned, my tinny audio disappeared!  

(Thanks also to John B who also replied just a few minutes ago)

Thanks again for your help, Jim.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Pulokas
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:29 PM
To: User discussion about IVTV
Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Random Tinny Audio With PVR 500 and ivtv 0.4.5

This sounds exactly like the problem I had.  The
toggling of good and bad audio was unpredictable,
probably about 10% or less of the time in my case. It
was resolved for me in this thread on the devel list:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/28703

In my case, two things were necessary to fix it:
   - the fix available in ivtv 0.4.5
   - the latest beta firmware for the cx25840 chip
One or the other of those alone did not fix it.
BOTH were necessary.

I think mine may be an isolated (lucky) case, because
several other people have reported that they still
have the problem.  I can report that I have been
completely free of tinny audio for about a month.
My stable and working system is:  PVR-500, Debian
stable, kernel 2.6.15.1, ivtv 0.4.5, mythtv 0.19

Are you using the latest firmware?  Your log should
have something like this:
cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382
bytes)

If it says something other than "16382 bytes", then
you are not using the latest HcwMakoC.ROM.
Although I never comfirmed how necessary it was, I was
extra careful to do a complete power down to "reset"
the pvr card after the new firmware was loaded the
first time.

Jim

--- John Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Given the apparent randomness, there is no way I
> script a solution…does
> anyone have any similar tales or (even better) a
> solution?  Is there more
> information I should be posting?  I am running
> Ubuntu 2.6.12, and ivtv 0.4.5
> (was happening with 0.4.4, but I saw the release
> notes for 0.4.5 and they
> claimed to have improved the tinny audio problem)

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