[mythtv-users] 0.19 and sound

Joacim J jocke4news at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 15:53:38 UTC 2006


ALSA is working fine with XINE but not in MythTV, gets the following
message in frontend:

2006-02-18 08:55:10.814 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
2006-02-18 08:55:10.846 New DB connection, total: 4
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
2006-02-18 08:55:10.947 VideoOutputXv Error: GetRefreshRate(): X11 ModeLine quer
y failed
2006-02-18 08:55:10.948 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-02-18 08:55:10.949 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2006-02-18 08:55:10.949 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
2006-02-18 08:55:11.050 VideoOutputXv Error: GetRefreshRate(): X11 ModeLine quer
y failed
2006-02-18 08:55:11.050 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2006-02-18 08:55:11.422 rebuffering (2665 32768)
0: start_time: 868.464 duration: 0.166
1: start_time: 868.441 duration: 0.162
2: start_time: 868.441 duration: 0.161
stream: start_time: 9649.340 duration: 2.103 bitrate=5129 kb/s
2006-02-18 08:55:11.804 AFD: Opened codec 0x8afb540, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-02-18 08:55:11.823 AFD: Opened codec 0x8afb870, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2006-02-18 08:55:11.835 AFD: Opened codec 0x8974690, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2006-02-18 08:55:11.875 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-02-18 08:55:11.876 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
Unable to open mixer: '/dev/mixer'
2006-02-18 08:55:11.878 NVP: Enabling Audio
2006-02-18 08:55:12.214 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.

Any ideas?

On 2/16/06, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joacim J wrote:
> > I have compiled with:
> >
> > $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/mythtv-0.19 \
> > --enable-xvmc \
> > --enable-lirc \
> > --enable-audio-alsa \
> > --enable-audio-oss \
> > --enable-audio-jack \
> > --enable-audio-arts \
> > --enable-opengl-vsync \
> > --enable-dvd \
> > --enable-dvb \
> > --enable-firewire \
> > --enable-ivtv \
> > --enable-joystick-menu \
> > --enable-proc-opt \
> > --enable-dts
> >
> > And have not tried with ALSA:default instead of /dev/dsp but still no luck.
> >
> > // Jocke
> >
> let me interject, and I hope I don't make this more complicated - and
> this may not even help. I don't know anything about Gentoo so take that
> into account. I use FC3/4, and the following works on FC.
>
> ALSA is definitely preferred over OSS. You can check ALSA status with
> these current handy-dandy utilities:
>
> How to know which ALSA version is included in currently running kernel?
> cat /proc/asound/version
>
> What cards alsa knows about:
> cat /proc/asound/cards
>
> What devices alsa knows about:
> cat /proc/asound/devices
> cat /proc/asound/modules
>
> alsa sound status:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound status
>
> and, of course, try lsmod ( /sbin/lsmod) to see current modules loaded.
> > On 2/15/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/16/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2/15/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> MythTV on Linux *must* be compiled with OSS support--even if you specify
> >>>> an ALSA device, so Steve did right in recompiling.  The
> >>>> --disable-audio-oss option is for use on MacOS and other ports.
> >>>>
> >>> not 100% true. I only compile MythTV with ALSA, all other audio
> >>> outputs are disabled.
> >>>
> >> Again, I don't think outputs are the issue. The problem occurs if you
> >> need OSS for input (e.g. because you're v4l tuner card doesn't capture
> >> audio).
> >>
> >> Steve
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> >
> >
> > --
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> > Joacim
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Regards
Joacim


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