On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 07:28 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Thursday 07 August 2008 00:23:40 Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 22:32 +0200, Sebastian Buks wrote:
> > > I have a problem that hasn't been here all the time. I think it
> > > happened when I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. However this
> > > might be wrong. Reverting the kernel (and thus the driver doesnt
> > > give anything). When I check my devices I see that tuner1 has no
> > > audio detected while tuner0 has it. Video works fine on both
> > > devices. I have no clue on why suddenly one of the tuners not
> > > detecting the audio stream.
> > >
> > > I read back on the list and found at least one other thread where
> > > similar things happened but the thread was suddenly stopped and no
> > > more information was given. Here are my "v4l2-ctl --log-status -d
> > > 0" and "v4l2-ctl --log-status -d 1":
> > >
> > > Hope anyone can help me on this, right now I'm stuck with only one
> > > tuner...
> >
> > I had the issue where after a year of working perfectly, one of my
> > tuners started not getting audio.  Then several months later the
> > other did the same.  My fix was to add the following to
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local: ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -q1
> >     ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -q1
> >
> > I did it for the first tuner with issues, and just duplicated it when
> > the other developed the same issue.
> >
> > I'm on old drivers (as long as it works, I don't upgrade), so maybe
> > the options have changed, but for the version I have here, -q does:
> > -q, --set-audio-input=<num>
> >       set the current audio input to <num> [VIDIOC_S_AUDIO]
> 
> What -q1 does is that the audio demodulator is bypassed and you just get 
> mono audio. I would suggest testing under Windows first: I suspect 
> broken hardware.

I'm quite sure that you are correct in pointing at the hardware, since
it's the same driver and kernel version that I've always used.

I thought the same about the mono when I first tried it (since that is
what the driver docs said), but oddly enough, in my office I have my
speakers pretty far to each side of my head, and I can definitely hear
stereo on most of my recordings. Maybe it's just "punting" the hardware
and it starts working properly after that - I only have to do it once
upon boot-up.  If so, then it most likely is directly related to the
type of hardware issue and will not be reproducible by anyone else.

Here's something really weird (keep in mind that if I don't do the -q1
when the computer boots up, I get no sound), running "-Q" reports that
the inputs are using "Audio Input = 0: Tuner Audio In"

If I re-run the -q1 followed by -Q, I get "Audio input = 1: Audio Line
1" - and it definitely sounds like mono... running -q0 gets me back to
stereo.

Lonnie



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