[mythtv-users] Problems with audio (no sound).
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Mar 5 22:07:52 UTC 2006
On 03/05/2006 04:50 PM, MAZ wrote:
>I looked at stdout from mythfrontend and mythbackend.
>mythfrontend is now set to "ALSA:default" (Audio-Device) and "default"
>(Mixer). There is still no sound in LiveTV but I can change the Volume
>with F10 and F11 (I can change the volume of the noise). ;)
>Mythbackend is set to /dev/dsp as I wrote before. Every attempt to
>change that has failed. I looked at the "-v all" output and when I
>create a new capture device (with audio-device set to ALSA:default) the
>mysql-output shows that it writes /dev/dsp to the database. I tried to
>set "ALSA:default" in the database manually but now mythbackend can't
>initialize the capture device.
>What should I write into the audiodevice-field in the database?
>
>
Myth cannot (yet) record with ALSA devices--it requires an OSS device
(/dev/dsp or similar) to work. Turn on ALSA's OSS emulation and you'll
have an OSS device. Only ALSA /playback/ is supported (and that's on
mythfrontend).
Mike
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