[mythtv-users] Long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 , mostly OK except audio !!

[Sholla]

On 01/08/15 15:18, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 7 January 2015 at 13:03, Sholla <holla.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> - 3-port stack (labelled as LineIn, LineOut and Mic)
>> I want to configure this as a 6-channel audio playback. If I do this
>> I loose the LineIn port. Earlier I had cabled the pvr-350 audio output
>> to system LineIn. So now i took the  pvr-350 lineout direct to
>> the TV speakers.  Trouble is I am not getting any sound ..
> You have a newer system. Do you still want to use the PVR-350's
> hardware accelerated OUTPUT and connect that to your TV, or just use
> it as a recording device and output your system's display (as is
> normal) via VGA/DVI/HDMI?

Whole setup is obsolete by today's standards (crt tv, sd settop box, only vga on the
atom board etc) and the mythtv box has no display monitor, sort of headless.
There is  the CrystalHD mini-pcie decoder which works nicely with mplayer2,
but final display of course is sd.


> Also note that you do not need to daisy chain the audio output of the
> PVR-350 to your sound card's Line-In - as long as the PVR-350 has
> unmuted audio and video input you will get MPEG-2 recordings with
> sound, with the system's audio output device(s) providing the sound
> output to your speakers/TV (if using HDMI you can typically send
> everything digitally in a single cable).
>
>> - In 0.21 I had seen the following config screen under
>>   Settings/TV Settings/Playback:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Hardware Decoding Settings:
>> [x] Use the PVR-350;s TV out/MPEG decoder
>>      Video device for the PVR-350 MPEG decoder:  [/dev/video16]
>>
>>       Program Guide Alpha:  [164]
>> [-]  TV audio through PVR-350 only
>>
>> <cancel/back/Next>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> I cannot seem to find a similar settings. Is this gone ?
> See above question. c10 years ago I used the accelerated output of my
> PVR-350 for playback of MPEG-2 recordings (for which it was superb)
> but it was severely lacking for any other type of media playback.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>