[mythtv-users] plextor convertx audio trouble

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jan 12 05:11:07 UTC 2006


On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Jason wrote:

> I received my Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U this afternoon.  Other than
> needing to force hotplug with 'make install USE_UDEV=n', the install
> went smoothly. :)
>
> Recording with gorecord went well, I can see and hear the file.
> gorecord reports using /dev/video and /dev/dsp1.
>
> I've used mythtv for over two years (well, since 0.7-8ish), never saw
> anything like this.
>
> No matter what I try, mythbackend will only open /dev/sound/dsp.  I  
> set
> it everywhere to /dev/dsp1, and when I enter setup again, it's  
> changed to
> /dev/dsp... wtf?  So I went into mythconverg and changed the only
> value='AudioDevice' I have in settings to /dev/dsp1.  That sticks.
> Unfortunately, when mythfrontend is running remotely (the only way I
> ever run it), I get no audio.  An 'lsof | grep myth | grep dsp' yields
> only one line with mythbackend opening /dev/sound/dsp....
>
> So I search the source (0.18.1), I can see some default values set to
> '/dev/dsp', but I don't see any hard-coded lines.
>
> Right now, I'm re-merging (gentoo) mythtv with debugging support.  In
> the meantime, any ideas?
>
> thx,
>
If you're not using udev couldn't you just link /dev/dsp to /dev/ 
dsp1? or is something else using /dev/dsp? If you use udev a straight  
link wouldn't work (it would get hosed at every boot) but you could  
re-write the rules/permissions to achieve the same thing.


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