[mythtv] [PATCH] Add help text to audio device selection
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Jun 25 19:07:16 EDT 2004
On Thursday 24 June 2004 09:25 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> This patch just adds some help text to the audio device selection.
> Specifically it notes the need to use ALSA:device to reference an ALSA
> device. I had an issue today where for some reason with the newer alsa
> libraries installed I could no longer use /dev/adsp but instead had to
> use ALSA:spdif to reference my digital out but it took me some time to
> figure out that I had to use ALSA: (caps required) to get Myth to open
> the ALSA device properly. This is unlike mplayer which many might be
> used to so I thought this help text might help people looking for the
> same setting.
I've been keeping the ALSA stuff out of the settings help since it really
doesn't work properly.
Isaac
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