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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">you are using a digital output, iec958 is spdif (coax or optical)<br>
<br>
You won't get sound from the analog output that way.<br>
<br>
If using digital, there's no point setting the control volume, that<br>
won't work with digital<br></blockquote><div><br>Oops! Okay I hit scan for audio devices again and the options it provides are:<br><br>ALSA:iec958:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0<br>ALSA:side:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0<br>NULL<br>
<br>(Up till now, I had been using ALSA:default. Here is my /etc/asound.conf if helpful: <a href="http://pastebin.ca/2008380">http://pastebin.ca/2008380</a>) I chose the 2nd one and here's the output I got:<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:08.324 Loading en_us translation for module mythvideo</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:08.376 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'Arclight'</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:08.727 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.1.100:6543">192.168.1.100:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:08.729 Using protocol version 63</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:14.383 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("center_lfe:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:14.484 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("front:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:14.682 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("rear:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:14.883 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("surround40:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:14.982 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("surround41:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:15.086 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("surround50:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:15.184 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("surround51:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:15.287 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_open("surround71:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:40.484 Received a remote 'Clear Cache' request</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:41.650 Received a remote 'Clear Cache' request</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:44.759 New DB connection, total: 2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:44.801 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.1.100</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:52.886 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:52.981 AudioPlayer: Disabling Audio, params(0,2,44100)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.119 AudioOutput Error: Aborting Audio Reconfigure. Invalid audio parameters ch 2 fmt 0 @ 44100Hz</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.120 AudioPlayer: Disabling Audio, reason is: Aborting Audio Reconfigure. Invalid audio parameters ch 2 fmt 0 @ 44100Hz</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.120 playCtx, Error: Aborting Audio Reconfigure. Invalid audio parameters ch 2 fmt 0 @ 44100Hz</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.207 AFD Warning: ScanATSCCaptionStreams() called with no PMT</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.208 AFD: Opened codec 0xa4994f30, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.208 AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.208 AFD: Opened codec 0xa4764330, id(MP2) type(Audio)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.315 AO: Opening audio device 'side:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0' ch 2(2) sr 48000 sf signed 32 bit reenc 0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.315 Opening ALSA audio device 'side:CARD=Revolution71,DEV=0'.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:53.320 AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.212 Clearing OpenGL painter cache.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.291 VDPAU: Created 2 output surfaces.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.291 VDPAU: Version 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.291 VDPAU: Information NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 260.19.21 Thu Nov 4 20:56:20 PDT 2010</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.291 VDPAU: Created VDPAU render device 1920x1200</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.305 Player(0): Forcing decode extra audio option on (Video method requires it).</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.340 [mpegvideo_vdpau @ 0xb4c334a0]warning: first frame is no keyframe</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.413 Player(0): Video timing method: USleep with busy wait</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.414 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:54.478 VDPAU: Added 2 output surfaces (total 4, max 4)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:55.869 Marking recording as unwatched</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:56.058 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingPreRecorded to None</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:56.066 VDPAU Painter: Clearing VDPAU painter cache.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:56.066 MythPainter: 43 images not yet de-allocated.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:56.169 TV: Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:57.301 Preview: RemotePreviewRun() -- no reply..</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:58.206 OpenGL: Deleting OpenGL Resources</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2010-12-02 01:29:58.244 Deleting UPnP client...</span><br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>From the log I don't see anything suspicious except that the version<br>
of 0.24-fixes is already a bit old<br>
and you are using digital output, if your TV is connected via analog<br>
you won't hear a thing.<br>
<br>
So please provide more information:<br>
version of mythtv used (SVN revision)<br>
how your TV is connected to your PC.<br>
what audio device are you using with the other applications ?<br></blockquote></div><br>The myth version I'm using is the latest stable one provided by our package manager (Arch linux user here). Here is exact info from the mythtv package in our Arch repo:<br>
<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">└─> yinfo mythtv</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Name : mythtv</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Version : 0.24-1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">URL : <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/">http://www.mythtv.org/</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Licenses : GPL</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Groups : None</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Provides : None</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Depends On : lame libavc1394 libiec61883 libvdpau libxinerama libxvmc lirc-utils mesa mysql-clients mysql-python perl-dbd-mysql perl-libwww perl-net-upnp python-lxml qt wget</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Optional Deps : xmltv: to download tv listings</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Required By : mythplugins-mythvideo myththemes</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Conflicts With : None</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Replaces : None</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Installed Size : 67240.00 K</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Packager : Jonathan Conder <<a href="mailto:jonno.conder@gmail.com">jonno.conder@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Architecture : i686</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Build Date : Wed 10 Nov 2010 08:49:14 PM EST</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Install Date : Tue 30 Nov 2010 10:48:14 PM EST</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Install Reason : Explicitly installed</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Install Script : Yes</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Description : A Homebrew PVR project</span><br>
<br>My system is very basic, I am using a desktop computer with normal LCD monitor, and analog sound with a Logitech z-5300e system. Hopefully the asound.conf linked above can cover audio devices if that's what you mean? Thanks very much :)<br>