[mythtv-users] no sound watching livetv

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 12 11:57:35 EDT 2003


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of
> mythtv-users at sh3d.net
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:31 AM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] no sound watching livetv
>
>
> 	This time after getting mythtv all setup, I get no audio
> when watching
> livetv or recorded shows.  When i do the test with xawtv and aplay that
> is recommended in the documentation, I hear the audio correctly.
> 	Just to be sure it wasn't a permission problem is did a
> "chmod -R 777
> /dev/snd" but that didn't fix it.
>
> When i go to watch livetv I get these messages from the backend.
>
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> recorder: /dev/null: error setting audio input device to
> 44100kHz/16bits/2channel
> Could not detect audio blocksize
> audio volume set to '32768'
> recorder: /dev/null: error setting audio input device to
> 44100kHz/16bits/2channel

It's trying to capture audio from '/dev/null'.
Sounds like you need to re-run your backend setup.  Note that when
specifying the audio capture source, you can't type, you must select from
the list.

-JAC



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