[mythtv-users] Can't scan fir audio devices in new .24 install

[Gabe Rubin]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 17 November 2010 15:38, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The one thing I did change was removing ALSA:default from the database
>>
>> before scanning (I thought I had selected ALSA:spdif in .23.1 last
>
> it should not matter if it's in the list previously or not.
> 0.24 doesn't use a list anymore, it gets created when you scan for devices
>

When I had ALSA:default or ALSA:spdif in the database (and shown in
the settings screen) and tried to scan for audio devices, it gave me a
pop-up that said ALSA:default is not a valid device and then just
allowed me to click ok (this is not verbatim, best I can remember it).
 I had to actually go into the database and make that value blank and
the scan for audio devices to make it work.  When I had softsqueeze
running, it would not bring up the iec958 device, so I had to kill
that program to properly scan (I understand why it would not add that
device to the list and not saying this is an issue, I am just giving a
description of what happened).
>>
>> week when I downgraded based on your advice, but it appeared to still
>> be ALSA:default).  If I did not do that (or if ALSA:spdif) was in the
>> database, I had an error, but no crash like I had last time.  With it
>> blank, all my audio devices were populated and I could choose the
>> proper one (ALSA:iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0).
>>
> You should still have a ALSA:default device in the generated list as it's
> pretty common.
>
> But using iec958 is better anyway
>

It is not in the generated list.  That is fine.  iec958 works fine for me.