[mythtv-users] Re: Still having audio problems with upgraded 0.11

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, anders wrote:

> I'm having the same problem after switching to redhat9 (from debian
> woody) and to using the 0.11 ATrpms from berlin...

As opposed to the ATrpms from India? :)

> and haven't been
> able to track down the offending element yet as I have to get used to
> how things are done in RH at the same time... ;-)

The problem both Chris and you are having sounds like old ivtv 
drivers...

> I'm just about to try recompiling the ivtv driver (no sound when using
> mplayer on /dev/video0 either) and maybe installing alsa instead of the
> default oss..

Since you're having so many problems w/self-compiled software, I'd 
highly recommend you try grabbing everything you can from ATrpms. There 
are fully functional, pre-compiled ivtv and alsa binary rpm packages. 
I'd at least suggest trying them as a reference point.

> Are you using oss? - I read somewhere that alsa might fix my problem
> (or if using kde I might also have to switch off the arts sound daemon
> in the kde sound controlpanel...I'll try that direction tonight)

I've had zero problems with either OSS or ALSA under Red Hat Linux 9, 
under multiple versions of MythTV, and on several different 
computers... But yes, try killing off artsd in KDE...

> On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:06 AM, Chris Poch wrote:
>
>> I still do not get audio when recording TV or watching live TV with
>> release 0.11 on RH9.  Since it doesn't seem like anyone else is having
>> this problem, does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?
>> Should I try recompiling all of the 0.11 source (I always build myth
>> from source)?  What about switching to the CVS version?  I had planned
>> to switch over to CVS, but the CVS seemed to be down when I had the
>> time to mess around with my myth box.  Any suggestions would be
>> helpful.  I'd like to be able to start watching TV with sound again.
>> -Chris

I doubt the problem is with MythTV. If it compiled, it should be fine, 
unless you did something very abnormal. It is more likely either your 
capture card drivers, or your sound card drivers.

--Jarod

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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