[mythtv-users] I've lost audio in Video and DVD modes

[Mike Jasper]

John Sturgeon wrote:

> Mike Jasper wrote:
> 
>> I have a standalone mythtv box running FC1, 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ATrpms 
>> kernel, with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card (audio via ALSA). 
>> Everything was working beautifully until recently - now I'm not 
>> getting audio when trying to play videos or DVDs.  However, audio is 
>> fine on live and recorded TV, and when playing music via myth or 
>> xmms.  I also tried playing some of my .mpg videos outside of mythtv, 
>> in both mplayer and xine.  No audio.  I've re-run alsaconf to no 
>> avail, and played with every setting in alsamixer and envy24control.  
>> And as of tonight, mplayer crashes when I try to play a video via mythtv.
>>
>> Below is output from mplayer after starting mythfrontend from the 
>> console, and trying to play a video.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated - thanks.
>>
>> --Mike
> 
> Perhaps you are being bitten by the change from alsa9 to alsa1x?  See 
> mplayer -ao help, then edit your ~/.mplayer/config file accordingly.

Yes, that was it.  I've been watching that thread today, just didn't 
have a chance to reply to it.  In my case, I had to add '-ao oss' before 
mplayer would give me sound.  So, apparently I am using ALSA's OSS 
emulation.  This is fine for now, as I'm just using 2-channel sound via 
my amp (via digital coax).

Soon I'll have a 5.1 speaker system set up, and I'd like to use spdif 
via alsa.  I'm not sure how to do that with my M-Audio card.  Does 
anyone have experience with that?  I'm guessing I need to do some heavy 
editing to ~mythtv/.asoundrc, which right now contains just the following:

	pcm.ice1712 {
	type hw
	card 0
	}

	ctl.ice1712 {
	type hw
	card 0
	}

Thanks!

--Mike