<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc">list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Sep 30, 2006, at 10:07 PM, Richard Krehbiel wrote:<br>> It says: "aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or<br>> directory". aplay -v says nothing more.<br><br>So, did you actually look and see if /usr/share/sounds/alsa/
<br>Front_Left.wav exists? :) I'm unclear if the error aplay is giving<br>you is because the file doesn't exist on your system or if it is<br>because of some other problem.</blockquote><div><br>I had checked that first. Yes, it exists.
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> PCM doesn't look "mute-able." Pressing M with PCM selected does
<br>> nothing.<br>> Oh - IEC958 *was* muted.<br>> Sadly, aplay Left_Front.wav still says "aplay: main:547: audio open<br>> error: No such file or directory".<br><br>Unmuting IEC958 was progress. For me it's both unmuted and the vol is
<br>set to 100. I've read elsewhere that setting the vol level on the<br>IEC958 isn't really important. I took the "safe" road and set it to<br>100 and that works for me.</blockquote><div><br>In allamixer, my IEC958 doesn't have a volume slider. Hm.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Your aplay -L output indecates you still have an asoundrc file<br>somewhere. Check in ~/.asoundrc and /etc/asoundrc and remove it for now.
</blockquote><div><br>I don't have a ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asoundrc. I did have an /etc/asound.conf, which I just hid (rename it to .hide). Nothing's different. From aplay -v -D spdif I get: "aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory".
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Try again with mplayer: "mplayer -v -ao alsa -afm hwac3 -<br>monitoraspect 16:9 -dvd-device /dev/cdrom dvd://1" and let us know
<br>about the .wav file error. Also, what distro is this?<br></blockquote></div><br>mplayer still gives no audio.<br><br><blockquote>==========================================================================<br>Trying to force audio codec driver family hwac3...
<br>Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF<br>dec_audio: Allocating 8192 bytes for input buffer.<br>dec_audio: Allocating 16384 + 65536 = 81920 bytes for output buffer.<br>No accelerated IMDCT transform found
<br>hwac3: switched to AC3, 192000 bps, 48000 Hz<br>AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)<br>Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF)<br>==========================================================================
<br>Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/ac3 -> 0Hz/0ch/??...<br>[libaf] Adding filter dummy<br>[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/ac3<br>[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/ac3<br>alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 100
<br>alsa-init: using ALSA 1.0.11rc2<br>alsa-spdif-init: playing AC3, 2 channels<br>alsa-init: using device iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02}<br>alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1217:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p failed: No such file or directory
<br>alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory<br>Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.<br>Uninit audio filters...<br>[libaf] Removing filter dummy<br>Uninit audio: hwac3<br>Audio: no sound
<br></blockquote>Fedora Core 5, linux kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp. I've been using Red
Hat & ilk for years, but if a different distro is likely to have
more success then I'm open to that.<br>
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