[mythtv-users] No video

mark fairlane at voyager.net
Wed Jul 9 01:28:04 EDT 2003


Shirley, Mark R wrote:

>You were right Bruce, I made the changes I wanted to modules.conf
>to correct the broken default install of ALSA, rebooted, and suddenly 
>I had working video on Myth.  Now I need to get the recording of sound
>sorted out.  I have two sound cards in this box, and the SBLive! is the
>second card.  I am trying to work with the second card, and still haven't
>gotten any sound out of myth yet.  When I run aplay /dev/dsp when myth is
>running, I get nothing.  aplay /dev/dsp1 when myth is running, has a 
>bitstream it's trying to play, but I can't hear it.  Is there a switch 
>to change aplay's output to the second card?  I haven't had a chance to
>dig into aplay's man page yet.  Also have been playing with alsamixer
>to set the sound card inputs and outputs.  SBLive has a TON of mixer
>sliders.
>I'm not sure I'm getting the right ones.  I muted what I thought was
>line-in,
>and also set it to capture on that.  How can I be sure it's correct?
>
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bruce Markey [mailto:bjm at lvcm.com]
>>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:50 PM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] No video
>>
>>
>>Shirley, Mark R wrote:
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>>>I have a correctly working XawTV setup.  The sound is 
>>>I believe a line in/line out passthrough, (not using /dev/dsp)
>>>but let's handle video first.
>>>      
>>>
>>Ah, the other way around. You need to get audio working
>>first before going on to video. Unlike xawtv, mythtv is always
>>recording and has to have the audio device to record from
>>before video will work. If you're satisfied that you see
>>video from xawtv, then it's time to attack:
>>
>>http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-18.html#ss18.11
>>
>>before going on to try out mythtv.
>>
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