[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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