<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Robin Gilks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org">g8ecj@gilks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> I realise I can get it working using the mythtv Alsa Spdif output and<br>
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>> use the amplifier remote, it's just not the way I want to go and<br>
>> reduces the WAF a lot.<br>
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>> So back to the original question.<br>
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>> Did people have to tweak anything to get alsa default or pulseaudio<br>
>> default working?<br>
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> Not to be flip or anything, but a Logitech Harmony remote would solve<br>
> your<br>
> problems. Unfortunately, they don't come cheap, but they are very<br>
> programmable for multiple devices including Myth. Many of the MythTV<br>
> users<br>
> on this list have used them. (and I believe the WAF is OK with them;<br>
> others<br>
> may comment).<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To get my S/PDIF output working regardless of whether I am using ALSA or pulseaudio I needed to use alsamixer to unmute the digital out. My machine always came up with it muted. I used alsactl to make unmuted the default.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have the same volume problem, except my S/PDIF is going to speakers that do not have a remote control. I could not find a way to control S/PDIF volume with ALSA, so I added pulseaudio to the mix. The repository version of mythtv in kubuntu had a pulseaudio sync issue, so I am using a patched version from:</div>
<div><a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/shauns/mythtv-lucid-testing/ubuntu/dists/lucid/">http://ppa.launchpad.net/shauns/mythtv-lucid-testing/ubuntu/dists/lucid/</a></div><div>I know that does not help on fedora, but a little googling should lead to the patch. The frontend has audio sync when using "PulseAudio:default"</div>
<div><br></div><div>My issue is that every fast forward and commercial skip the frontend changes the system volume. Every other application is happy using pulse, and pulse is doing a good job of handling volume control. This issue is known:</div>
<div><a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8314">http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8314</a></div><div>It will not be fixed. I checked out hd-audio branch mentioned on that ticket and compiled everything to see if either the bug had been fixed with architectural changes or if I could hack something to fix it, but the database schema had changed so I could not run the compiled frontend. I put this on the backburner because dealing with mysql is above my pain threshold at the moment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As far as I can tell the only way to control optical volume is with pulseaudio (or esd/arts). ALSA does not seem to have a mechanism for controlling master/pcm volume for S/PDIF. </div><div><br></div>
<div>Jim</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5"></div></div><div><div class="h5">
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