<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Alen Edwards <allen.edwards@oldpaloalto.com><br>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 11:17:52 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] hauppauge hvr-1800 very low volume<br><br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com">genius9976@yahoo.com</a> wrote:<br>> ----- Original Message ----<br>> From: Alen Edwards <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:allen.edwards@oldpaloalto.com" target="_blank"
href="mailto:allen.edwards@oldpaloalto.com">allen.edwards@oldpaloalto.com</a>><br>> To: Discussion about mythtv <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com">genius9976@yahoo.com</a><br>> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 10:27:29 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] hauppauge hvr-1800 very low volume<br>> <br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com">genius9976@yahoo.com</a> <mailto:<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:genius9976@yahoo.com">genius9976@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I don't think that worked...<br>> ><br>> > [scott@mythback ~]$ aplay -l<br>> > **** List of
PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>> > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]<br>> > Subdevices: 1/1<br>> > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>> > card 0: SB [HDA ATI
SB], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]<br>> > Subdevices: 1/1<br>> > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>> > [scott@mythback ~]$ iecset audio 1<br>> > control "IEC958 Playback Default" (index -1) not found<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > I tried as root and got the same thing...<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > mythtv-users mailing list<br>> > <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <mailto:<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>> > <a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>> <br>> Well, I think I told you the wrong thing. I am sorry for the confusion.<br>> I was going by memory. I really need to be more careful before posting.<br>> <br>> Let's try one more thing:<br>> <br>> iecset audio 0<br>> iecset -x<br>> <br>> I would certainly expect that you would see this:<br>> $ iecset -x<br>> AES0=0x02,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x02<br>> <br>> Because we have the same chipset.<br>> <br>> If doing the above allows music to play temporarily, you will have the<br>> same problem as this guy:<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2008-March/216382.html">http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2008-March/216382.html</a><br>> <br>> He didn't get a response
but his problem may be your solution as you may<br>> not have the same goal he did.<br>>
<br>> Also, you might write him and see if he solved it.<br>> <br>> Since your sound chip is the same as mine by the way. It is strange it<br>> is behaving differently. We just need to figure out what the difference<br>> is. I think you also said you have Mythbuntu 8.04 so that would be the<br>> same as well.<br>> <br>> Allen<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Something weird must be going on...<br>> <br>> [scott@mythback ~]$ iecset audio 0<br>> control "IEC958 Playback Default" (index -1) not found<br>> [scott@mythback ~]$ iecset -x<br>> control "IEC958 Playback Default" (index -1) not found<br>> <br>> <br>> I'm actually using Fedora 9 which comes with PulseAudio (could that be <br>> the problem?). However, even when my computer is not set to output <br>> sound through PulseAudio I still get the above error. One time when I <br>> tried to run "iecset audio
1" via ssh I did get some weird error about <br>> not being able to connect to the PulseAudio server or something like <br>> that, but I haven't been able to reproduce that error locally. I have <br>> always been able to play everything I've wanted to, but over spdif, myth <br>> seems to be a quieter program, and with digital recordings being quieter <br>> than analog, they are not quite loud enough with everything turned all <br>> the way up.<br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br>I agree that something
strange must be going on. We have the same <br>chipset and get very different results although as you point out, <br>different versions of linux.<br><br>I guess you need to figure out why iecset isn't returning anything<br><br>I did a little googling on this and the best suggestion I could find was <br>to remove pulse audio.<br><br>"alsa-plugins-pulseaudio rpm removed"<br><br>I can think of things to do, but they all work around what is probably <br>the real problem which is, like you said, something weird is going on.<br><br>Allen<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio worked... With the settings in myth that you mentioned, the
digital recordings are still somewhat quieter than analog, but myth no longer seem to be quieter than other programs, so I can get things 'loud enough.' I also now get similar output using the commands you suggested:<br><br><br>[root@mythback X11]# aplay -l<br>**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>[root@mythback X11]# iecset audio 1<br>Mode: consumer<br>Data: audio<br>Rate: 44100 Hz<br>Copyright: permitted<br>Emphasis: none<br>Category: general<br>Original: 1st generation<br>Clock: 1000 ppm<br>[root@mythback X11]# iecset -x<br>AES0=0x04,AES1=0x00,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x00<br><br><br>This isn't really a big deal (everything works now), but any idea why would I be getting different
output from the 'iecset audio 1' command when we have the same audio chipsets? I assume 48000Hz audio is better...<br></div></div></div></div><br>
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