[mythtv-users] No sound with DVD playback
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Nov 12 19:18:04 EST 2005
On 11/12/05 19:04, Bennett Leve wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> The audio's not coming out of your PVR-350 because the PVR-350 isn't
>> decoding the DVD. Therefore, you should route the PVR-350's audio
>> out through your soundcard and route the soundcard to your audio
>> receiver. Then, when mplayer plays your DVD (although, really, you
>> probably should be using xine for DVD's to get the menu support) and
>> outputs sound through the sound card, you get audio without switching
>> connections.
>>
>> If you don't want audio to go through your sound card, you can use an
>> IR transmitter to tell your audoi receiver to switch inputs and waste
>> a remote button on switching inputs and have to remember to switch
>> inputs when appropriate. Or, you could apply patches to mplayer/xine
>> to support DVD playback through the PVR-350, but the patches
>> introduce some significant issues in sync and you'll get much better
>> results using Xv and your sound card.
>
> Thanks, that explains it very well. I need to work on the xine
> thing. It is very choppy and I have not figured out how to correct it
> yet.
Make sure you have Xv support (i.e. install John Harvey's ivtvdev driver
for X) and use
xine -V xv --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan dvd
Mike
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