[mythtv-users] .24 Audio results: mixed

[Douglas Peale]

On 06/18/2010 09:49 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 19 June 2010 14:34, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Point me at instructions on how to do this and I will.
> 
> How did you update to mythtv trunk in the first place?

I went to Mythbuntu Control Center -> Repositories and selected 0.24 in the drop down list box.

> 
> Looking at your logs, I can not explain what's going on.
> And what I thought could be an issue earlier, isn't the case. So
> upgrading won't help I'm afraid
> 
> It does the exact same thing for ALSA:default as it does for
> ALSA:iec958, that is the unmodified raw digital audio, passed straight
> through to your amplifier.
> 
> Only thing left that I can think of is:
> -Make sure you have no .asoundrc or alsa particular configuration file
> that could mess up something there.

There is no .asoundrc file in my home directory.
There is nothing that looks alsa related in my home directory.
There is a .pulse directory and a .pulse-cookie in my home directory.

> -You don't use the volume control

There are so many mixers & volume controls & other tools to set up sound on this system (and no clear indicator which is the
right one to use and which ones are leftovers), I'm not sure what you are talking about here.

> -Uninstall pulse audio

I'm going to hold off on this one.

> -You have another audio card there with SPDIF output, (the microsoft
> one), try this one instead.

The ONLY Microsoft item on this computer is a Microsoft Lifecam Cinema that I plugged in today. It has a microphone, but no
sound output capability.