[mythtv-users] Lost HDMI sound in Media Library->Search Internet videos after move to Mythbuntu 12.04

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 00:04:13 UTC 2012


On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When I upgraded to 12.04 I found that the device number I need to use has changed. It used to be card 1 device 3, it's now card 1 device 0.
>>> Thing is I now have so many devices (plughw, hw, hdmi) all referring to the same connector (hdmi) that I'm utterly confused by the whole thing and honestly couldn't tell you what I did to get sound out of anything. What the hedgehog do the ALSA guys do for fun? :)
>>> And here's the weird thing. I know for a fact I created a .asoundrc file that made sound come out of flash videos. But it's not there any more. I didn't delete it. And sound is still coming out of flash videos. 12.04 is powered mainly by ghosts and magic.
>>>
>>
>> Ghosts and magic seems to be right. I remember in the 2011 thread I
>> had with JYA, he wondered why people manually futzed around with their
>> asound.conf file. The mythbuntu desktop is xfce, so I don;t have any
>> apps I can find that handle card choices etc. And again, why does card
>> 1, device 9 work in the command line but not in the asound? It's smoke
>> and mirrors. I wanted to move to 12.04 so I could use .26 but if I had
>> known 'd still be futzing with this...
>
> yeah smoke and mirrors==alsa

Oh I should have said, theres a lot of info (and confusion) to be
found in /proc/asound  :-)


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