[mythtv] Separating CAPTUR and Capture in OSS

[Robert Middleswarth]

I think that freshrpm.net does a pretty good job of keeping up with its 
RPM from what I can tell but I wish Redhat would make native ALSA driver 
avaible.

Robert Cantu wrote:

>I know that most of you are running Debian or SuSE, but RedHat does not come
>with alsa so you have to either 1) build from source or 2) get
>kernel-version locked prebuilt packages (these usually don't cover modules
>built against the newest RedHat up2date kernels). Please no flames about RH.
>
>Robert Cantu, RHCE
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
>[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Matt Zimmerman
>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:37 PM
>To: Development of mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv] Separating CAPTUR and Capture in OSS
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:46:04PM -0600, Robert Cantu wrote:
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>>I run mythtv with the stock emu10k1 on RedHat 8.0 with my SB Live! PCI
>>card.  I've also tried it with Alsa from source. I can honestly say that
>>the OSS driver is much better. With alsa, I get horrible audio performance
>>when I fast forward or rewind recorded or live TV. That and it's just
>>cleaner not to have 10+ modules that you have to hand load in most cases
>>(modprobe snd-emu10k1 doesn't load the oss-pcm or oss-mixer modules), not
>>to mention that you have to handle the case of automatically muted Master
>>and PCM channels in the mixer everytime you load the drivers. For RedHat,
>>I find that alsa just gets in the way (it handles the OSS mixer load/save
>>already after an install) for performance that is either negligible or
>>non-existent for 98% of cases needed. I'm not saying it's not a good
>>project, I'm just saying that MythTv (and it's developers) shouldn't force
>>alsa on the user if the oss driver performs the same or better (as it does
>>in the case of emu10k1).
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>If you would use your vendor's ALSA packages, the administration problems
>that you have would go away.  They take care of loading the modules
>properly, saving and restoring mixer settings, etc.  Thee are not inherent
>problems with ALSA.
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>--
> - mdz
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