[mythtv-users] ALSA not working in Myth

[Robert Tsai]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:16:05PM -0800, Chris Lynch wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> So today I decided to break down and move to the SVN version of Myth
> (8858).  I have everything working now with the exception of audio.
> Previously ALSA worked just fine from RPMs (I'm running on FC4), but now I
> get nothing from the frontend.  When I compiled myth, I did the following
> command:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-xvmc --enable-opengl-vsync
> --enable-proc-opt --enable-audio-alsa --enable-firewire --enable-dts
> 
> That should enable ALSA... and I get no compile errors and all looks good.
> 
> But when I run Myth and play any file, I get the following in the log:
> 2006-02-04 20:51:17.917 Audio output device is set to an ALSA device but
> ALSA support is not compiled in!
> 2006-02-04 20:51:17.917 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: Unable to create
> AudioOutput.
> 
> This is really confusing - if I play a file in Xine or with mplayer using
> ALSA, it plays just fine.  Yikes.
> 
> Any ideas?

You probably also need "--enable-audio-oss" (although I believe that
is the default unless you explicitly disable it).

--Rob
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