[mythtv] BTAudio / Alsa on nForce

Cedar McKay mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:11:50 -0800


I have alsa working on a nforce (asus) board, with the built in sound 
card. Works fine. Have not done anything with BTAudio.


cedar



On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:03  PM, Thor Johnson wrote:

> Hrm...  These issues aren't in MythTV, but might keep someone else 
> here from
> beating
> his head on the wall.  Only one that is relevant to Myth is #3.
>
> I finally got around to trying the BTAudio module on my card (Avermedia
> TVStudio98),
> but found quite a few things that were disappointing:
>   1.  I could only get the analog portion to work; the Digital one 
> resulted
> in no sound
>         (Bummer.  Analog is Mono-Only)  It was clean iff I used a 48KHz
> sample rate.
>
>   2.  There was a noticeable (~1 second, constant) time delay (video 
> before
> sound).
>
>   3.  BTAudio is a OSS-Style device - can Myth use it?
>       Do you think it would be worthwhile if I try to make a patch 
> that uses
>       either the OSS drivers or the ALSA drivers?
> ---
>
> Failing that, I looked over at the Alsa project.  Evidently, they have 
> some
> issues
> (the devel list says they're fixed) with recording on the i810.  
> Attempting
> to
> record line-in on my pc results in a file of 0-samples :(.
>
> But I am getting closer... (now to ask the Alsa list & maybe get a usb 
> audio
> port).
>
> -Thor Johnson
>
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