Thanks for your reply. When I installed Mythtv a user was created- 'mythtv'. I assume this is the context under which it runs( how can I be sure?) althoughI start the backend as root from a command line and start the front end as myself from a command line. Anyway, following your suggestion, logged in as root, mythtv and myself I can get sound playing mp3's mpegs wavs etc using various programs(except myth). I'm guessing that this should be the case<br><br>What might point me in the right direction is if someone with a similar setup as mine could post a working configuration. ie. what ALSA/OSS components were compiled or included as modules in the kernel. what mixer levels were set, and what needs to be filled in in mythforntend for sound device and mixer. <br>I know I'm just missing something, but I can't figure out what it is<br><br>I also read somewhere that I might require a .asoundrc file. What is this, where does it go and where
can I get one?<br>thanks again<br>p<br><b><i>Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br>On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:04:14 -0500 (EST)<br>Paul Cnudde wrote:<br><br>> I can't for the life of me figure out why I can't get mythtv to produce any sound.<br>> I managed to get ivtv working. If I do cat /dev/video0 > test,mpg then I get a short mpg which contains audio so I know my card is working correctly (its a pvr-500 with the hardware encoder so no need to patch it in to my sound card)<br>> I can play wav files and mp3s etc no problem using totem.<br>> I have tried the setting the following devices in mythfrontend:<br>> ALSA:default<br>> /dev/dsp<br>> /dev/adsp (i dunno it was in the list)<br>> <br>> I have tried these with the different combinations of mixers suggested:<br>> /dev/mixer<br>> default<br>> /dev/mixer1<br>> <br>>
I have played around with the alsamixer and the gnome mixer. I have tried capturing on all the inputs, yet I get no sound. looking back through the archives this seems to be a common problem but unfortunately not many people seem to post their solutions. I'm a bit of newbie with linux and perhaps bit off more than I can chew attempting to set up mythtv 0.19 as one of my first projects. If someone could provide me with *detailed* trouble shooting steps I'd be very appreciative. I'm running debian with a 2.6.15 kernel. My sound card is an onboard Nvidia nforce2<br>> If I manage to fix this I will post my solution to this list<br>> thanks in advance for your help.<br>> Paul<br><br>what user does mythtv run as? Does */that user/* have the ability to<br>output sound? (su - to that user then try running some movies and see if<br>it outputs sound).<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users
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