[mythtv-users] Still no sound in MythTV with WinTV-HVR 950Q

Adam Jimerson vendion at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 00:31:40 UTC 2010


On Friday 10 September 2010 10:39:58 pm R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 09/10/2010 03:13 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Adam Jimerson<vendion at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> >> That would be hard I have no recordings because this is my first time
> >> setting up mythtv.
> > 
> > In that case, you should use some kind of sample file from somewhere,
> > perhaps Hauppauge or Silicon Dust have some.  Just something to 
confirm
> > that you can do playback with "mythavtest" and get sound.  You want to
> > isolate if your problem is playback or recording in Myth.
> > 
> > Kevin
> 
> Kevin is right. You probably can find some short files at
> /usr/share/sounds/alsa on your system.
> I would first check the settings on alsamixer..turn ON everything and
> turn everything UP. My laptop, for whatever reason, NEVER keeps saves
> and restores its settings. I have to unmute the speaker and raise the
> PCM level EVERY time I boot. My desktop and the mythbox do not have that
> problem...Basic but an easily overlooked item. You *may* have set them
> correctly, but you need to verify that they are still correct.
> 
> Next use aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav to see that you
> actually have some output, outside of myth.
> 
> Then try mplayer to play a video file, or even an audio track. If you
> really don't have anything to play you could rip one of your DVD's, to
> create a file you can test with.
> 
> If those work, then it is clearly a myth settings problem and
> notwithstanding your problems, should be relatively simple to fix since
> there are only so many combinations of settings.
> 
> HTH
> Geoff
> 
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Can someone point me to where MythTV keeps its logs to help understand 
what is going on here?
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