[mythtv-users] Anyone have a CX8800-based capture card working in MythTV?

Wed Feb 8 20:04:14 UTC 2006

Don Gafford wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Longtime lurker, first time poster. I have a MythTV version 
> 0.18.2.20051227-1 setup in place from the instructions on Jared 
> Wilson’s page. After much help from Jared’s page, this list and a 
> couple of other pages, I have everything working except sound in my 
> recordings and live TV.
>
> I can’t run XAWTV which I assume is because I don’t have a BT-based 
> card. When I launch it I get a pink or green screen with no sound 
> output. It could also be that I haven’t identified the tuner correctly 
> to the application. I can run tvtime with no issues and Watch TV works 
> without sound. I used to use my onboard Intel 8x0 soundcard, but 
> couldn’t get sound in Watch TV either. The card has an internal only 
> 4-pin sound connector that I hooked to Aux on both the Intel and 
> Creative cards. I ran tvtime with that card and did an aplay /dev/dsp 
> and got a staticy silence. I tried moving the audio output from the 
> card to either the CD In or Aux In lines with no luck. With that card 
> I could use the alsamixer application and could assign the capture 
> port. With the Audigy I could not. All the time the Analog sound works 
> fine. I installed my Audigy 1 card and got sound in exactly the same 
> places as with the Intel 8x0 card. The only exception is with aplay 
> /dev/dsp.
>
> With the Audigy I get:
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# aplay /dev/dsp
>
> Playing raw data '/dev/dsp' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
>
> underrun!!! (at least 9.686 ms long)
>
> underrun!!! (at least 11.677 ms long)
>
> underrun!!! (at least 11.724 ms long)
>
> underrun!!! (at least 11.693 ms long)
>
> ……….
>
> I never got sound even by letting aplay run. I did get sound with an 
> echo one time when I accidently left the Aux-In line unmuted. Before 
> you ask artsd is killed. I have been searching this list and others 
> for any help and I have seen no one with my exact issue that didn’t 
> have a CX8800-based card. More often than not _/THIS/_ card. I am at 
> my wits end with this so in a last ditch effort, I have included all 
> kinds of info that people on this list or others had asked those in my 
> situation for in the past. Please email if you need something else. I 
> would especially like to hear from someone who has either this card or 
> another CX88
>
> I did find this tonight:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/msg23132.html
>
> Would that help? It’s got to right? Thanks in advance
>
> -Don
>
> I have the following hardware:
>
> Asus P4PE Motherboard
>
> P4 1.6Ghz Processor
>
> XFX Geforce 5900SE videocard
>
> 512mb ram
>
> Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert (CX88 based)
>
> Media Center Remote and USB Receiver (New version)
>
> Creative Labs Audigy (Original) Sound Card
>
> Disabled onboard Intel 8x0 sound card
>
> Onboard Network
>
> I am running the following software versions all from RPMs no source 
> compiling (I know, sue me):
>
> Fedora Core 4 with kernel 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4.
>
> MythTV version 0.18.2.20051227-1
>
> Alsa version 1.0.10
>
> Nvidia graphics 76.67
>
> TVTime 1.0.1
>
> XAWTV 3.95
>
> XINE .99.4
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> alias eth0 tg3
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_promise
>
> alias char-major-81 cx8800
>
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>
> alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>
> alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb2
>
> # nvidia kernel module
>
> alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667
>
> alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
>
> install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && 
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>
> remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# cat /home/mythtv/.asoundrc
>
> pcm.emu10k1 {
>
> type hw
>
> card 0
>
> }
>
> ctl.emu10k1 {
>
> type hw
>
> card 0
>
> }
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# lspci
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE 
> DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
>
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE 
> Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 02)
>
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
>
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
>
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
>
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) 
> USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
>
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
>
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC 
> Interface Bridge (rev 02)
>
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller 
> (rev 02)
>
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
> SMBus Controller (rev 02)
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 
> 5900] (rev a1)
>
> 02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 
> (FastTrak 376) (rev 02)
>
> 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X 
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
>
> 02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video 
> and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
>
> 02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
>
> 02:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game 
> port (rev 03)
>
> 02:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# cat /proc/asound/cards
>
> 0 [Audigy ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090]
>
> Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x511102) at 0xa800, irq 10
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# /sbin/lsmod | grep -r 'snd[-_]emu10k1'
>
> snd_emu10k1 110756 0
>
> snd_rawmidi 22176 1 snd_emu10k1
>
> snd_ac97_codec 86944 1 snd_emu10k1
>
> snd_seq_device 8332 5 
> snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>
> snd_pcm 83204 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
>
> snd_timer 22148 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
>
> snd_page_alloc 8584 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
>
> snd_util_mem 4224 1 snd_emu10k1
>
> snd_hwdep 7968 1 snd_emu10k1
>
> snd 49892 12 
> snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
>
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What tv card have you got?