[mythtv-users] No sound from MythMusic...

[Tony Paterra]

Thanks all for your responses.  I was keeping my sound card out of the
equation currently as I had the TV's sound working fine (and I was
short a few cables).  I'll cable it up and play from there.  Thanks
for the heads up.


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:56:22 -0800 (PST), John Kondis <jkondis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Tony Paterra <apaterra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure what hardware device
> > MythMusic should be
> > using for audio output, is it using my soundcard or
> > will it use the
> > output from my PVR-350 the same as my cable?
> 
> MythMusic will only use the soundcard.  The PVR 350's
> sound output has no driver for it to be treated as a
> "regular" sound card; it will only output audio from
> an mpeg2 stream that is either a recording or buffered
> live TV.
> 
> To get both music and TV audio to play out the same
> connections, I connected my 350's audio output to the
> line-in on my sound card, and "muted" the soundcard's
> line-in-as-rear using alsamixer.  After doing this, it
> sends whatever's coming in through line-in to the
> line-out, via hardware (internally to the sound card,
> I think).
> 
> In any event, it works great.  My sound card is based
> on the C-Media CMI8738 chip.
> 


-- 
Tony Paterra
apaterra at gmail.com