Hi,

I have a minor problem with sound falling out and becoming white noise 
in mythtv every now and then. I currently solve this problem by running 
this command:
v4lctl -v 1 -c /dev/video0 setnorm PAL-BG

This command currently runs on a crontab every hour on the hour on my 
backend system. This solves the problem for me, but needless to say it's 
not exactly an elegant solution.

The problem is caused by saa7134 not being able to "guess" what 
audio-carrier setting to use, and thus reverting to the (I think) default, 
which is 6.000 Mhz. For me to have sound, I need to have it at 5.550Mhz.

dmesg:
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 6.000 MHz [last detected] <- 
this is when sound falls out

Previously, one could set this as a module option (modprobe saa7134 
audio_carrier=5500), but this was removed about a year ago by the 
video4linux2 maintainers in favour of a more flexible solution - namely 
enabling this to be set in user-space instead. This enables a user to, for 
example - tune several different channels with a different audio-carrier 
for each channel. However (afaik) mythtv uses the old behaviour, and does 
not set audio-carrier on channel change - which leads me to my question:

Does any of you guys know of a way to tell mythtv to execute a command 
(v4lctl bla bla..) on channel change, or on startrecord?

/Steffen

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