[mythtv] Re: SB Live

Richard Trice mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:14:17 -0600


Shoot.... if you could send me how to get my sb live working
that would be great.  the Alsa drivers are a huge pain in my
ass.

Kevin Bowen wrote:

> If a list moderator would approve my post from a few days back in which I
> attached my asound.state file with all the appropriate settings, everyone's
> problems would go away. In the meantime, everyone who is still having the
> problem mail me off the list and I'll send it to you.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]On Behalf Of mark@zzo.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 10:46 AM
> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Re: SB Live
>
> I have the exact same problem - sound was working great - then I
> rebooted w/o saving & now for the life of me I can't get sound
> back.  I can hear it when I unmute 'Line' but it's 5 seconds or so
> ahead of mythtv but can't get hear the sync'ed version.
> Xtremely frustrating.  It's a VIA 8235 onboard AC97 chip.
> I tried both the command line & alsamixer instructions & everything
> inbetween to no avail.
>     M
> Robert Dege(rdege@cse.Buffalo.EDU)@2002.12.25 09:49:49 +0000:
> >
> > I discovered that Line-in should not be set to capture.  I forget what I
> > did as I updated the kernel/alsa-drivers & hence wiped out my settings.
> >
> > All I remember is that the standard capture settings in the docs do not
> > apply to that card.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > > Tried that, but no good.  If I set things as described below, I still
> get no
> > > audio.  I have AC97 and AC97-Capture channels too, which at least do
> > > something.  AC97 seems to do unbuffered audio, and the AC97-Capture
> gives a
> > > nasty slowly fading echo, but the first (peak) is in sync with the
> video.
> > >
> > > What are all the settings that aren't set to 0?  Here's what I have:
> > > Master - 100%
> > > Master mono - 100%
> > > PCM - 100%
> > > PCM out - "post 3d"
> > > Line - 100%, mute, capture
> > > Capture - 100%, capture
> > >
> > > Thanks again!
> > >
> > > Johann
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:02:27 -0800 Bruce Markey <bjm@lvcm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > klemmack@earthlink.net wrote:
> > > > > I have a similar issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using the standard download (not CVS) on
> > > > Redhat 8.0 with SB Audigy Gamer
> > > > > and a WinTV with audio output patched to the
> > > > line-in.  I followed the ALSA
> > > > > installation and general sound works fine.  I
> > > > max out Master, PCM, and Line-In
> > > > > levels, mute line-in and set it to capture.
> > > > However, when I go into MythTV,
> > > > > no sound.  I enable the Line-In, I get the
> > > > unbuffered audio.  What should I
> > > > > do?
> > > > >
> > > > > The horrible catch is that I had it all
> > > > working... once.  Then I rebooted the
> > > > > machine and it all stopped working.  I know I
> > > > have some setting that didn't
> > > > > get saved, but I have no idea what!   Any
> > > > help?
> > > >
> > > > In alsamixer there is a bar graph titled
> > > > "Capture". Make
> > > > sure that this also has the red "CAPTUR" at the
> > > > top, is
> > > > unmuted and the volume up.
> > > >
> > > > --  bjm
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> >
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