[mythtv-users] Problems with audio (no sound).

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/05/2006 04:50 PM, MAZ wrote:

>I looked at stdout from mythfrontend and mythbackend.
>mythfrontend is now set to "ALSA:default" (Audio-Device) and "default" 
>(Mixer). There is still no sound in LiveTV but I can change the Volume 
>with F10 and F11 (I can change the volume of the noise). ;)
>Mythbackend is set to /dev/dsp as I wrote before. Every attempt to 
>change that has failed. I looked at the "-v all" output and when I 
>create a new capture device (with audio-device set to ALSA:default) the 
>mysql-output shows that it writes /dev/dsp to the database. I tried to 
>set "ALSA:default" in the database manually but now mythbackend can't 
>initialize the capture device.
>What should I write into the audiodevice-field in the database?
>  
>

Myth cannot (yet) record with ALSA devices--it requires an OSS device 
(/dev/dsp or similar) to work.  Turn on ALSA's OSS emulation and you'll 
have an OSS device.  Only ALSA /playback/ is supported (and that's on 
mythfrontend).

Mike