[mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback

[Joe Votour]

--- Jan Kat <jan-kat at shaw.ca> wrote:

> After googling this problem for over a week, I'm
> beginning to think
> there is no solution.  But hopefully someone here
> can tell me once and
> for all if this can be done or if it can't and I
> just need to let it go
> and move on.
> 
> My setup:
> 
> Compaq DeskPro EN SFF - 400MHz Celeron (Mendocino),
> 128MB RAM, ES1869
> onboard sound
> 
> WinTV PVR-350 (model 48132, rev. K268) w/ tuner LG
> TAPE H001F MK3 (type
> 47)
> 
> Gentoo 2005.4, kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r5
> (gentoo-sources)
> 
> IVTV 0.4.0 (latest from IVTV site)
> 
> MythTV 0.18.1-r1 (emerged)
> 
> 
> My problem (and some history):
> 
> The PC is a small form factor originally intended as
> a network
> appliance.  Painted black, it looks sharp with my
> other stereo
> components.  However, there is no audio line-in on
> the rear bezel nor
> pinned out on the motherboard.
> 
> I started with a 2.4 kernel but couldn't tune in any
> stations; an
> upgrade to 2.6 seems to have fixed that (though it
> could have been one
> of the many other things I tried).  Everything
> works, but the audio from
> live TV and playback comes through the PVR-350 (in
> MythVideo, mplayer
> plays video through the PVR-350 and audio through
> the ES1869).
> 
> As noted, I can't loopback audio from the PVR-350 to
> the ES1869 as there
> is no line-in.  I know that audio can be pulled
> directly over the PCI
> bus from bttv cards; I'm wondering if the same can
> be done with a
> PVR-350, and how I would set that up?
> 
> I read that MythTV 0.18.1 fixes "live TV audio loss
> when viewing mpeg2
> transport streams."  That sure sounds like my
> problem, but maybe I've
> misconfigured something so that bug fix isn't
> implemented?  Maybe
> Gentoo's MythTV-0.18.1-r1 is configured a certain
> way and I need to
> unmerge it and download and compile directly from
> the MythTV site?
> 
> I have one PCI slot free so I can put another sound
> card in, but I find
> this solution distasteful as I already have a
> perfectly good (if
> incomplete) sound card on the motherboard (which
> took some effort to set
> up, too).  But if I have no choice, I have no
> choice.
> 
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You have two options here:
1. Don't use the PVR-350 MPEG-2 decoder for watching
shows.  Use Xv that is provided with the newest
drivers (0.4.x).
2. Put in a second sound card and use it for looping
the sound.

-- Joe


	
		
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