[mythtv-users] Sound problems, suggestions please.

Kevin N. Carpenter kevinc at seaplace.org
Thu Jan 1 10:43:01 EST 2004


Thanks Drew.  Alas, when I change "/dev/dsp" to "ALSA:hw:0,0" via 
mythsetup, it doesn't take.  When I go back and look, its set back to 
/dev/dsp.  Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

Kevin C.

Drew Bernat wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, michael brown wrote:
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>Myth defaults to using OSS, and there's some manual setup that's required 
>to use ALSA native (as opposed to the OSS compatibility that ALSA can do). 
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>ALSA support will be compiled in if you have alsa in your USE flags. To 
>actually use it set Myth to use the device "ALSA:hw:x,y" (where x is your 
>sound card # starting with 0, and y is the output desired from the sound 
>card) instead of "/dev/dsp".
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>For example, to get analog out from by NForce audio, I use "ALSA:hw:0,0". 
>For S/PDIF out, I use "ALSA:hw:0,1".
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>Hope that helps :)
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>Drew
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