[mythtv-users] 0.24 with digital audio

Scott & Nicole Harris snharris99 at live.com
Thu Dec 22 01:59:01 UTC 2011


>> I am trying to recall the exact problem I was encountering when Music was
>> left as "default".  I believe that when left as "default", the upmixing
>> option in MythMusic would either crash Myth entirely or cause no sound.

>You can disable upmixing in mythmusic separately from the main
>upmixing settings.

The issue I am referring to was specifically toggling upmixing in MythMusic. 
When On in MythMusic and the audio setting set to default in MythMusic, I 
had the issue.

>> However, when flipped Music to the same setting I used in the "Audio" 
>> screen
>> in of your 0.24 builds (ALSA:hmdi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 in my case with my 
>> 430),
>> it works fine.  I just double checked, and it is indeed still set to
>> ALSA:hmdi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 in Music settings on my system, working
>> flawlessly.

>Try putting it back to default.

I will and see what happens.

>The way mythmusic code works, is that if it sees "default" as the
>device name; it simply replace it with the audio device found in the
>main setting.
>here is the code:
>    if (gCoreContext->GetSetting("MusicAudioDevice") == "default")
>        adevice = gCoreContext->GetSetting("AudioOutputDevice");

>So setting the audio device name to be both the same will make *no*
>difference ; because effectively it's exactly the same thing.

You'd certainly know better than I on that front :).




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