On 8/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Whyte</b> <<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/21/07, James Cummings <<a href="mailto:cummings.james@gmail.com">cummings.james@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> The script to restart the backend is all well and good, but only solves part<br>> of the problem from my point of view. On my box the backend can be still
<br>> running and it decides not to lock onto a channel even though signal is<br>> strong. In liveTV it just vgives you the option to wait longer, etc. but<br>> when it is meant to be recording it just doesn't record anything, creates a
<br>> 0 byte file which then the frontend is not able to find. Restarting the<br>> backend in these cases solves the problem, it will lock on the channel right<br>> away, but the cron script won't help, because the backend is technically
<br>> running.<br>><br><br>I used to have a problem like this too, but it was solved in 0.19 or<br>0.20 so I haven't had it occurr. One other problem I had was that the<br>DVB drivers sometimes failed to load correctly so I had to use a
<br>script to explicitly ensure they were removed and then reloaded at the<br>end of the system startup. That solved those problems too.<br><br>I am not near my box now, so I can't help any more.<br><br><br>In other news, I swapped out the mobo for my backend back to the
<br>original model and I have not yet experienced a backend crash in 7<br>days. The only other change I have made is removing a USB hub that<br>was between the keyboard and the PC and plugged the keyboard directly<br>into the PC. Not sure if this could indicate a hardware addressing
<br>change for the better or not, but I am running quite happy right now.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Whytey<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>I am trying to get this to work on my box. I am using FC6. I cant get aplay to work on my digital spdif out.
<br><br>here is my /etc/asound.conf file:<br>#Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand<br>#SWCONF<br>#DEV 0<br>defaults.pcm.card 1<br>defaults.pcm.device 0<br>defaults.ctl.card 1<br><br>pcm.!default<br>{<br>
type plug<br> slave {<br> pcm "spdif"<br> rate 48000<br> format S16_LE<br> }<br>}<br><br><br><br>in myth I get the sound to play by putting this in the box:<br>ALSA:spdif<br><br><br>When trying to use aplay i get:
<br><br>[myth@mythtv sounds]$ aplay select.wav<br>Playing WAVE 'select.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono<br>[myth@mythtv sounds]$ aplay -D spdif select.wav<br>Playing WAVE 'select.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
<br>aplay: set_params:905: Channels count non available<br>[myth@mythtv sounds]$ aplay -D digital select.wav<br>ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM digital<br>aplay: main:545: audio open error: No such file or directory
<br>[myth@mythtv sounds]$ aplay -D analog select.wav<br>ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM analog<br>aplay: main:545: audio open error: No such file or directory<br>[myth@mythtv sounds]$<br><br><br>What am i missing?
<br><br>Thanks<br>