[mythtv-users] Myth sound confusion

[Mike Perkins]

Allen Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Chris Stevens <chris at mindblow.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a fully working installation of mythtv trunk (svn latest today)
>> with sound output to Alsa:Default. This was on Mandriva 2009.1 using
>> pulseaudio. All worked no problem.
>>
>> I upgraded the os from Mandriva 2009.1 to 2010.0, and (whether using the
>> existing myth build or completely recompiling) there was no sound. Aplay
>> worked and everything else worked. ALSO, myth produced a pulse
>> connection and you could see the volume bars moving. Just no sound.
>>
>> There is no /etc/asound.conf or anything.
>>
>> When I changed myth to use ALSA plughw:0,0 it worked, BUT there is no
>> pulse connection.
>>
>> Can somebody tie up the loose ends here?
>>
>> Chris
>>
> 
> I would suggest you add a asound.conf file with your plughw 0 0 thing in it
> per the format which I can't remember right now or I would write it here.
>  Should be easy.  You should probably add a mixer statement for future
> releases as well.  The file should be simple with just 10 lines or so for
> the two entries.  You don't need all the stuff you will find in the various
> wikis
> 
> Allen
> 
Tried checking for muted out entries in your mixer(s)?

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Mike Perkins