[mythtv-users] ECS Liva for frontend - brief report

[Alistair Grant]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
>>
>> Karl Newman wrote:
>>>
>>> So you're saying the hardware mixer controls won't work at all, even
>>> outside Myth?
>>
>>
>> I don't know about outside Myth, but this was pointed out by JYA a few
>> months back; and indeed it did work.
>
>
> Ugh. I found the problem. My mixer device was set to the default /dev/mixer
> (why is that the default? I think that's some ancient OSS crud...!) Setting
> it to ALSA:default allowed it to work (software also works). But I have to
> have the volume level around 80% to hear at a reasonable level (and TV
> volume about 60% which would normally be blasting).

I have to admit to not understanding ALSA properly, however when I was
having these problems I was able to solve a couple of them by
installing pavucontrol and checking the levels in it.

Cheers,
Alistair