[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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