[mythtv-users] Switch to ALSA from OSS sound problem
Carl Petersen
carl.petersen at myrealbox.com
Wed Oct 29 00:58:44 EST 2003
Ok,
I'm an idiot.
I skipped the ALSA install fallowing Jarod's excellent tutorial.
And found the output sound level to the TV to not be to my liking. So
I figured the ALSA install would correct this problem, right?
So I installed ALSA, and that went great. Rebooted.
Started gnome-alsamixer, and turned everthing on. Eventually found a
jack on the back that played /usr/bin/aplay
/usr/share/sound/KDE_Startup.wav out of the TV. Fabulous.
Now when I start 'mythfrontend' and go to view a recorded show, or
live TV, I hear no sound
at all. I can still do 'aplay' of WAVs out of the TV, and
PC-speaker-beeps are coming out of the TV, but MythTV-sound is not
coming out of the TV.
Did some groveling over the newsgroup, found the mod that if I add
'-ao alsa9' to my mplayer invocation:
mplayer -ao alsa9 /some/previously/records/show
-or even-
mplayer -ao alsa9 /dev/video0
I can get sound. So the recordings seem to be working. The PVR-250 is
clearly bringing in a signal, but ... *shrug*
I fiddled with all the 'Setup->General' options for sound, choosing all
of them at one point, but
failed to hit a working combination.
What have I done wrong, and, more importantly, how do I fix it? :-)
Carl "I %$@ the pooch again" Petersen
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