[mythtv-users] Lost audio after upgrade

[Nick Morrott]

2009/10/16 Christopher Meredith <chmeredith at gmail.com>:
> I've been using trunk for a while now with no problems. I upgraded
> today from a revision pulled 9/5 (sorry, don't know the revision
> number) to r22479. Now my audio has stopped working. I am using a USB
> audio device with AC3 passthrough and an HD-PVR. I have ensured my
> audio settings are the same as they were before by comparing to the
> pre-upgrade database backup. Audio works fine in all my other programs
> (mplayer, XBMC, etc.) When I try to play anything back with MythTV, I
> get this error on the console:
>
> 2009-10-15 23:24:00.912 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching
> WatchingPreRecorded
> 2009-10-15 23:24:00.966 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching
> WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin
> 2009-10-15 23:24:01.186 AFD: Opened codec 0x506b970, id(H264) type(Video)
> 2009-10-15 23:24:01.186 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
> 2009-10-15 23:24:01.187 AFD: Opened codec 0x506c120, id(AC3) type(Audio)
> 2009-10-15 23:24:01.190 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(6) sr
> 48000 (reenc 0)
> 2009-10-15 23:24:01.190 AudioOutput Error:
> AudioOutputALSA::SetIECStatus: snd_ctl_open(default): No such file or
> directory

It looks like your ALSA:default audio device is missing. Is it defined
in your ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf files?

Nick

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