[mythtv-users] Does Plextor Convertx really need OSS?
David Snider
dsnider at thesniderpad.com
Sun Apr 8 22:58:46 UTC 2007
> MythTV does /not/ support audio capture using ALSA API's. It will
> /only/ use OSS API's. Therefore, if you can't get OSS sound to work,
> you'll want a capture card that does audio capture for you, such as the
> PVR-150, or a capture card that captures and already-encoded stream,
> such as the digital capture cards (pcHDTV or whatever). Note, though,
> that the digital ones require access to digitally-transmitted TV and may
> require significantly more system resources to decode (i.e. if you get
> HDTV, decoding it in software will stress a 3GHz Pentium 4).
>
that's what I was afraid of... I have another backend that has oss
enabled, I guess I'll try it on that one. Has anyone experienced this
on AMD64 before though? I can't figure out why the OSS drivers would
cause a kernel crash...
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