[mythtv-users] no sound

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:04:14 -0500 (EST)
Paul Cnudde wrote:

> I can't for the life of me figure out why I can't get mythtv to produce any sound.
> I managed to get ivtv working. If I do cat /dev/video0 > test,mpg then I get a short mpg which contains audio so I know my card is working correctly (its a pvr-500 with the hardware encoder so no need to patch it in to my sound card)
> I can play wav files and mp3s etc no problem using totem.
> I have tried the setting the following devices in mythfrontend:
> ALSA:default
> /dev/dsp
> /dev/adsp (i dunno it was in the list)
> 
> I have tried these with the different combinations of mixers suggested:
> /dev/mixer
> default
> /dev/mixer1
> 
> I have played around with the alsamixer  and the gnome mixer.  I have tried capturing on all the inputs, yet I get no sound.  looking back through the archives this seems to be a common problem but unfortunately not many people seem to post their solutions.  I'm a bit of newbie with linux and perhaps bit off more than I can chew attempting to set up mythtv 0.19 as one of my first projects.  If someone could provide me with *detailed* trouble shooting steps I'd be very appreciative.  I'm running debian with a 2.6.15 kernel.  My sound card is an onboard Nvidia nforce2
> If I manage to fix this I will post my solution to this list
> thanks in advance for your help.
> Paul

what user does mythtv run as? Does */that user/* have the ability to
output sound? (su - to that user then try running some movies and see if
it outputs sound).



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Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>