[mythtv] ALSA in mythtv not working

[Mark Anderson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Ed Wildgoose
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:00 AM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] ALSA in mythtv not working
> 
> Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> 
> >I've never had success getting ALSA to work in mythfrontend, but I
> >figured that after all the recent audio patches, I'd give it a try
> >again.  No luck.  I've set the audio device in the setup to
> >"ALSA:spdif" (which works using aplay).  I have an MAudio Delta DiO
> >2496.  Here's the output when running mythfrontend w/ --verbose
audio:
> >
> >
> 
> Well, everything looks pretty good in your log, except this bit:
> 
> >2005-02-06 17:51:51.419 Stream #1 (audio track #1) is an audio stream
> >with 2
> >channels.
> >2005-02-06 17:51:51.419 Auto-selecting audio track #1 (stream #1).
> >2005-02-06 17:51:51.419 It has -1 channels and we needed at least 0
The -1 channels is a bug in the trace output that was introduced by the
AC3 fixes. It does not effect the selected audio track.

> >2005-02-06 17:51:51.419 Initializing audio parms from stream #0.
I don't know why it initialized from stream 0 but selected stream #1

> >2005-02-06 17:51:51.573 Killing AudioOutputDSP
> >
> >
> 
> 
> You didn't actually say what does or doesn't happen?  Does it just
play
> silence at you, but the video works OK?  From the trace it would
appear
> to be filling the soundcard and yet the soundcard is draining samples
at
> a reasonable rate "to somewhere"...  Sure you don't have a second
> soundcard which it's writing to instead?
>
DO you have SPDIF passthrough enabled?

Cheers
Mark
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