<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2018, at 7:27 PM, James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Jim Abernathy<br class=""><a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2018, at 7:11 PM, James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">On Nov 13, 2018, at 6:45 PM, Peter Bennett <</span><a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">> wrote:</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 11/13/18 5:01 PM, James Abernathy wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I’m doing some testing on my RP3 B+. My production RP3 B+ is very stable, but it’s LibreELEC and Kodi. I miss using Mythfrontend for certain functions.<br class=""><br class="">My current problem is on certain recordings there is no audio. The audio is there in the recording and you can hear it on Kodi and mythfrontend on x86 platform with linux. I could not find /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log so can’t check for errors.<br class=""><br class="">I’m running Stretch 9 update 2018-10-09.<br class="">gpu mem is 320.<br class="">I have the performance set for scaling_governor<br class="">I have the MPG2 license.<br class="">So I can also run Kodi on this system, they had me set the GL driver to G3 Legacy i.e. Broadcom driver.<br class="">Kodi wanted the Camera interface enabled to pickup some video codecs<br class=""><br class="">in Mythfrontend:<br class="">audio device is OpenMAX:hdmi<br class="">Video Playback profile: OpenMAX Normal<br class=""><br class="">So far I’ve noticed the missing audio on all recording on my PBS station. I’ll start testing more widely.<br class=""><br class="">BTW, I’ve found a great way to test how smooth the video is. It’s the news and weather crawl at the bottom of the screen. On Kodi it’s very smooth just like my Core i7 PC on Mythfrontend. But on RP3 mythfrontend the crawl slows then jumps, i.e. jerky. It’s easier to spot this way than watching a program.<br class=""><br class="">Jim A<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>If you use OpenMAX audio, the volume gets reset to 0 at the start of every playback, (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#OpenMAX_Audio_.28not_recommended.29" class="">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#OpenMAX_Audio_.28not_recommended.29</a>). Enable "Use internal volume control" and press "]" several times to up the audio after playing starts to increase the volume.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">OpenMAX HDMI is the only audio I have been able to get sound from. If I select ALSA *, I get static noise or mythfrontend locks up and I have to reboot the RP3.</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>I can get the 'Use Internal volume control’ to work, but the sound is like it coming from a well.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">It is way better to use ALSA audio (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#ALSA_Audio" class="">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#ALSA_Audio</a>). It does not have this problem and also makes for smoother playback.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">I’ll reread the ALSA stuff and see if I can get it working. So far nothing but static.</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>I do not have a mythtv:ALSA device. and all other ALSA selections product the static/noise. aplay -L shows CARD=ALSA, DEV=1 as IEC958/HDMI, but it also produces noise/static only</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="">There is a lot of information on that page<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi" class="">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to help get satisfactory results.<br class=""><br class="">Peter<br class="">____</blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OKAY, I finally pulled my head out of a dark place and figured out that I need to create the ‘$HOME.asoundrc’ file. Then I selected mythtv:CARD:ALSA. That gave me good HDMI sound except for the PBS station either recorded or liveTV.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there any log data that I could find that would help?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim A</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>