Tivo losing sound - comes back after reboot
In the last week or so, I've found that the Tivo is losing sound for TV programmes.
This includes live TV and recordings. The Tivo sound effects are still present and there is sound from the STB that is connected to the Tivo.
A reboot will restore sound but this seems to be happening every couple of days.
I'm running an S1 SA Philips Tivo with release 1.4. The machine has been running pretty well since it was imaged and the only thing I've been doing different lately is using vserver to extract files via Tivotool.
Anyone got any advice?
Intermittent Sound Loss - FTA ABC Brisbane
G'day, I have exactly the same problem as zollymonsta, been happening pretty much ever since I plugged the TiVo in after getting it, details as follows:
- only occurs on the ABC, never on any other channels
- intermittent fault, have not noticed any patterns
- I have observed it occur only when TiVo records, and seems equally likely to occur both
a. when TiVo has to change channels from another channel (sound always fine on other channels) to record on ABC, and/or
b. when TiVo already on ABC and not recording (and sound already OK) and then starts a recording
- can't remember it ever occurring when I change channel to ABC manually
- when the problem occurs and I happen to be watching, a manual change of channel away from ABC and then back to ABC fixes it (but only for that occurrence)
Background:
- TiVo bought from US, sent direct to Darren King for installation of a tuner & imaging and install of a large HDD (who did a great job, great support afterward, highly recommended!)
- Initial reception problems traced to crap antenna & crap house cabling, fixed with lush new antenna, quad-shielded cable and f-connectors all the way along signal path
If anyone can help, my wife, David Attenborough and I would be very appreciative!
Cheers,
Cods
Thanks, will give it a go...
Thanks Darren, I'll give palmod_config a go and tweak the tuning on the ABC this weekend, and see if that does the trick. If not, I'll get the antenna bloke back to do some balancing.
Not a complaint, but the Micronas / Mark 2 tuner seems, in my uneducated opinion, to be a tad, well, picky. As noted, my original antenna hardware / position / orientation / cabling really did suck quite badly, and it seems pretty fair that even though I'm LOS to the Mt Coot-tha Tx'rs, I had a crap signal input to the TiVo. It's worthy of note though that the Sony TV tuner and the dodgy $50 VCR tuner handled it a lot better than the TiVo tuner.
Will do some tweaking and see what results.
Thanks for the swift advice Darren - anyone reading this who hasn't already worked it out: Darren is your man for TiVo work!
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Cheers,