[mythtv-users] 0.19 and sound

Joacim J jocke4news at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 21:18:57 UTC 2006


Hi again,

My sound problem is still hanging around. I had no problem with 0.18
and Axels RPMs but now I want to compile it myself. Does Axel make
some magic in his packages?

Is it something missing in my configure:
./configure --prefix=/opt/mythtv-0.19a \
 --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

I have tested with both /dev/dsp (that worked with 0.18.2) and
ALSA:default and one thing I have noticed when running ALSA:default is
that the image hacking a little and not with /dev/dsp.

Dist: Fedora Core 4
[mythtv at htpc ~]$ uname -r
2.6.15-1.1831_FC4


==========================================================================
When running MythTV with /dev/dsp I get this output:

[Backend]
2006-02-19 21:40:51.090 DVB#0 CA: SetPMT for ServiceID=1010
0: start_time: 857.475 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 9527.500 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2006-02-19 21:40:57.488 AFD: Opened codec 0x8d55e20, id(MPEG1VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-02-19 21:40:57.489 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
2006-02-19 21:40:57.489 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(0,-1,-1)

[Frontend]
2006-02-19 21:46:47.824 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-02-19 21:46:47.838 Using protocol version 26
2006-02-19 21:46:48.335 Disable DPMS
2006-02-19 21:46:49.714
RingBuf(/video/recordings/2040_20060219214648.mpg): Timing out wait
due to impending livetv switch.
0: start_time: -9223372036854.775 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: -9223372036854.775 duration: -9223372036854.775
bitrate=0 kb/s
2006-02-19 21:46:49.724 AFD: Opened codec 0x89d1d60, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-02-19 21:46:49.724 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
2006-02-19 21:46:49.724 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(0,-1,-1)
2006-02-19 21:46:51.346 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
...
2006-02-19 21:46:51.543 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2006-02-19 21:46:51.602 rebuffering (16141 32768)
0: start_time: 4201.440 duration: 0.155
1: start_time: 4201.402 duration: 0.151
stream: start_time: 46682.240 duration: 2.146 bitrate=3975 kb/s
2006-02-19 21:46:52.234 AFD: Opened codec 0x89d1d60, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-02-19 21:46:52.250 AFD: Opened codec 0x9605260, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2006-02-19 21:46:52.255 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-02-19 21:46:52.255 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-02-19 21:46:52.258 NVP: Enabling Audio
==========================================================================

When running with ALSA:default i get this output:

[Backend]
2006-02-19 21:51:41.756 DVB#0 CA: SetPMT for ServiceID=1040
0: start_time: 857.475 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 9527.500 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2006-02-19 21:51:48.194 AFD: Opened codec 0x9916cb0, id(MPEG1VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-02-19 21:51:48.194 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
2006-02-19 21:51:48.194 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(0,-1,-1)

[Frontend]
2006-02-19 21:51:44.333 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
0: start_time: 4227.792 duration: 0.148
1: start_time: 4227.743 duration: 0.151
stream: start_time: 46974.920 duration: 2.186 bitrate=3917 kb/s
2006-02-19 21:51:44.893 AFD: Opened codec 0x9448710, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-02-19 21:51:44.911 AFD: Opened codec 0x9445380, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2006-02-19 21:51:44.969 Opening audio device 'default'.
ALSA lib control.c:817:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer
2006-02-19 21:51:45.072 Mixer attach error -2: No such file or directory
Check Mixer Name in Setup: /dev/mixer
2006-02-19 21:51:45.073 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: Mixer attach
error -2: No such file or directory
Check Mixer Name in Setup: /dev/mixer
2006-02-19 21:51:46.929 rebuffering (32513 32768)
2006-02-19 21:51:47.441 rebuffering (2305 32768)
2006-02-19 21:51:47.925 NVP: prebuffering pause
==========================================================================

Here is some output from suggested commands:

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3 (Mon Nov 07
13:30:21 2005 UTC).

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [V8237          ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
                     VIA 8237 with ALC850 at 0xe800, irq 5

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/devices
  1:       : sequencer
 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback
 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
  0: [0- 0]: ctl
 33:       : timer

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_via82xx

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound status
ALSA sound driver loaded.

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_via82xx            27993  1
gameport               15689  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         88161  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus            2497  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           3781  0
snd_seq_oss            31809  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7105  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49617  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            50545  0
snd_mixer_oss          17985  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                86981  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24901  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10697  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7873  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            24801  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          9037  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    54309  13
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9889  1 snd

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ ls -l /dev/mixer
crw-------  1 mythtv root 14, 0 Feb 19 09:12 /dev/mixer
==========================================================================



On 2/18/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/19/06, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ALSA is working fine with XINE but not in MythTV, gets the following
> > message in frontend:
> >
> > 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
>
> This is definitely not the problem I was having. In my case the
> backend would try to open /dev/dsp for input and then complain that it
> wasn't available (because OSS wasn't compiled in).
>
> In your case it looks like you've set MythTV to output to /dev/dsp.
> Try setting the output to ALSA:default as Brad suggested.
>
> Steve
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--
Regards
Joacim


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