[mythtv-users] bttv audio (tvaudio) too load

[papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu]

        Hello all.  I've been arguing with this mythtv box for a number of days 
now, and I have managed to make the bttv card *mostly* go.  For the most part, 
I'm trying to use the RPM'd versions (To be consistent with everything else 
and for simple upgrades).  Here's the biggest deal:

        The v4l bttv works OK, but the audio coming from it in mythtv is
clipped badly.  I first figured the mixer (SBlive), adjustments didn't help.  
I figured perhaps it was the stock OSS drivers, even with ALSA, no joy.  I have
since figured out that it's a v4lctl volume function causing the problem.  If I
decrease it with 'v4lctl volume 32768' (which is 50%), it's OK with xawtv,
gv4l, etc.  Mythtv resets this to something more like 80%, which clips the
input to the soundcard.  Any suggestions?

        I've started arguing with btaudio (driver loads, I've mknod'd devices 
and can mix, etc), but haven't heard a lick out of them.  Not quite sure where 
to go with that either.  Perhaps the card doesn't go?  Looking at the physical 
card I see a tda7432, tea6420, and tda9850 chips, which I think does tv demod 
and stereo?

Thanks for any suggestions.  I suppose the correct answer is to get the
tarball, tweak it, and fry it up, but it seems like a fair bit of effort to
have to do at every update (dependency resolutions, etc).

-Cory


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