Bill Bierman wrote: > The article I read that motivated me to give mythtv a try was this: > > http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/how-commercial-flagging-works.html > > As an aside, with both freevo and mythtv, I find getting sound to work > well (both in live viewing and in recording) to be inordinately > difficult. I consider myself to be extremely competent when it comes > to computers, and I wasn't able to get sound working in my freevo > recordings, or at all in mythtv. Someone really should make some sort > of idiot-proof script that allows for some automatic testing or sanity > checking or something!
Idiot-proof is not that easy with the diversity of hardware that is can be used. I've had some fun with audio too. The first problem to solve is do you get sound from aplay? If you don't then you have to tweak the mixer settings. Sometimes you need to use amixer rather than alsamixer as some of the controls are not always shown in alsamixers (nVidia chipset for one). For speakers attached to the PC, this should do MPLAYER_AO_DEV = 'alsa' For audio through an AV receiver (digital pass-through), this should do MPLAYER_AO_DEV = 'alsa:device=default' For non-standard set-ups then one of these may work. MPLAYER_AO_DEV = 'alsa:device=hw=0.0' MPLAYER_AO_DEV = 'alsa:device=hw=1.0' Then you may want to force the order of audio devices with modprobe.conf alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci # pci card alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 # on-board chip alias snd-card-2 snd-usb-audio # webcams etc options snd cards_limit=3 options snd-card-0 index=0 enable=1 options snd-card-1 index=1 ac97_clock=48000 options snd-card-2 index=2 The last bit can always be written as: options snd-cmipci index=0 enable=1 etc. Then you have asound.conf and this is a beast in itself. In conclusion, I don't think it is possible to have an idiots helper. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
