[mythtv] I dont know, its freaking me out.

[Chris]

Thank You Very Much for your help.  I switched the sblive 5.1 and
cmi8738 cards in the modules.conf so I can utilize the sblive as my
primary card.  I set the Line and Capture as CAPTUR.  Capture is at
maximum volume unmuted. Line is at minimum volume muted.  In addition, I
had to set Wave volume to 76 and unmuted nocapture, and AC97 Capture to
80 unmuted no capture.  This combination allowed me to run xawtv -C
/dev/dsp -c /dev/video0 and aplay /dev/dsp with sound.  I already know
the mixer settings were correct for the cmi8738, but since it is not
connected to speakers, I muted the master volume and pcm and just left
mic muted, 100, and at CAPTUR and mic capture at 100.  I was able to
simultaneously record 2 videos and both have sound!!  Interestingly,
xawtv -C /dev/dsp1 -c /dev/video1 and aplay /dev/dsp1 did not have any
sound output even if I have the speakers connected and Master and PCM on
100.  It seems aplay /dev/dspx only works on the first dsp device?  Boy,
this was very hard and frustrating but I am glad its over. ( I hope). 
Saved my mixer settings with alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store.  



On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 00:08, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > I see what you mean now.  I still cant get the audio working properly
> > though. Switched to alsa on both the cmi8738 (/dev/dsp) and sb live on
> > /dev/dsp1.  Followed the instructions using xawtv -c /dev/video0 -C
> > /dev/dsp and aplay /dev/dsp. I heard the sound played back as expected
> > so full duplex is working with the cmi8738.
> 
> Good! half way there...
> 
> > ... With the sb live. I tried
> > xawtv -c /dev/video1 -C /dev/dsp1.  I heard sound so I muted line in in
> > alsamixer, line in is selected as capture device.
> 
> I failed to mention that you need "alsamixer -c 1" to address the
> mixers for the second card. The upper left-hand corner of
> "alsamixer" should tell you it is the cmi8738.
> "alsamixer -c 1" should say "Sound Blaster Live!".
> 
> >  ...When I did a aplay
> > /dev/dsp1 I heard  no sound. It mentioned about xrun!! and at least
> > something seconds.
> 
> Great! those messages mean it found a device it can play on
> /dev/dsp1. Your modules file looks correct and must have
> loaded correctly. Three quarters of the way...
> 
> > Interestingly, though while playing with the mixer
> > settings, I noticed ac97 which affects the volume out of the sb16.  I
> > attached my modules.conf.  Any suggestioins?  Thanks 
> 
> So you must have the four settings mentioned in the HOWTO set
> correctly for the first card. For the second card you only
> need two things; the CAPTUR source and the Capture mixer
> level. Use "alsamixer -c 1" to set these. This is something
> else that may take a few seconds to grasp. The second card
> doesn't have speakers and doesn't need them. MythTV and aplay
> read from /dev/dsp1 then send the audio data to the PCM
> device on the first card then out to the speakers. Therefore,
> on my second card, everything is muted, volume is 0 for
> everything except Capture, and CAPTUR is set for Line.
> 
> That should do it. Once you get this working you may want
> to consider using the sb as the primary to take advantage
> of it's features and use the on-board for /dev/dsp1 only.
> 
> 
> --  bjm
> 
> 
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