[mythtv-users] unable to initialize audio with pvr 350

[Michael T. Dean]

sarvinc at fastmail.fm wrote:

>On Wednesday 01 February 2006 21:37, Mark Schindel wrote:
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>>sarvinc at fastmail.fm wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:27, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>>>sarvinc at fastmail.fm wrote:
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>>>>>It's an odd question I know, but is it possible to use the pvr350s
>>>>>recording capabilities only? I've just moved and really don't feel like
>>>>>dragging the TV out when there's a perfectly good monitor in front of
>>>>>me. I don't remember what I did, but video plays on the monitor, but I
>>>>>get the message "unable to create audio output." If I link to the
>>>>>recording and watch with Myth Video the recording plays fine.
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>>>>MythVideo uses mplayer to playback video unless you changed it to the
>>>>Internal player.  It sounds like you don't have your audio device
>>>>properly assigned in the General setup of MythTV.  It should be set to
>>>>the same that mplayer ends up using.
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>>>I normally use ALSA and in General have:
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>>>Audio output device: "ALSA:default"
>>>Mixer Device "Default"
>>>Mixer Control "PCM"
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>>>Since I'm using Alsa should I be using something else? I've just tried
>>>pretty much every combination that's there under General and no luck.
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>>Setup
>>--TV Settings
>>----Playback
>>------Hardware Decoding Settings
>>--------TV Audio Through PVR-350 Only
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>under Hardware Decoding Settings I previously unchecked "use the PVR-350's TV 
>out" and "TV audio through PVR-350 only" is unchecked as well.
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That's what you want.  Checking audio through PVR-350 only would be 
exactly the opposite of what you want.