[mythtv-users] MythMusic, HDMI, and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

[Steven Adeff]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Roald <roalda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> so I've got this new system connected via HDMI. Everything with it
>>>>> works except MythMusic, which when set to "default" for the audio
>>>>> output shows this in the logs:
>>>>> 2010-01-28 15:13:29.060 AO: Using resampler. From: 44100 to 48000
>>>>> 2010-01-28 15:13:30.662 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
>>>>> and randomly plays a quick "1/2 second" burst of the track.
>>> then, I also have this in my /etc/asound.conf
>> pcm.hdmi_music {
>>  type softvol
>>  slave.pcm hdmi_formatted
>>  control.name hdmi_volume
>>  control.card 0
>> }
>
>
> THANK YOU! This helped for me too. I am on 0.21, so the menus was a
> bit different, on the third General Setup Menu I disabled "Sample Rate
> Conversion".
>
> In ref to: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-January/277673.html
>
> Also helped on a couple of videos I had that could not play without skipping.
>
> Also I noticed the softvol-setting. What is this? Is it possible to
> use this to change volume? Currently I have the volume on the
> tv-remote, but the rest on the mythtv-remote, which is a bit annoying.
> What would you put in Mixer Device and Mixer Controls?

yes, softvol causes the mythtv computer to control the volume level.
otherwise it outputs at "line-level" so your tv or stereo/hometheater
system handles the volume level.

if you use softvol,
hdmi_music
is the device

-- 
Steve
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