[mythtv-users] pcHDTV-5500: Anyone have audio working with S-Video?

[Bob Sully]

Donald J. Maddox wrote:
> Bob Sully wrote:
>>> Message: 30
>>> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:03:47 -0400
>>> From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox099 at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV-5500: Anyone have audio working with
>>> 	S-Video?
>>> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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>>>
>>> If you do, please reply and let me know how you have it set up...  I
>>> can't get it to work no matter what I do :(
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Audio out from your STB -> audio in RCA plugs on the dongle that came
>> with
>> the 5500.
>>
>> Audio out from the 5500 -> line in (or mic in, depending on your card)
>> on
>> your sound card.
>>
>> When you set up the audio options for your 5500 card in setup - use the
>> audio device for your *sound card* (on my machine it's /dev/dsp) rather
>> than the one for the 5500 (/dev/dsp1 or whatever it's assigned on your
>> box).
>>
>> HTH -
>> Bob
>>
>
> Well, that's the old way of doing it - but all 5500s are supposed to be
> shipped with the on-board audio enabled now, so the sound card
> connection should not be required.  One of the users on the pcHDTV
> forums wrote a program to enable/disable it, and his program reports
> that mine is definitely enabled, and the audio device shows up correctly
> in my dmesg, but if I try to set up the card to use /dev/dsp1 (which
> should be the chip on the 5500, I think), all I get is audio static.  I
> don't want to use the old sound card way of hooking it up, because I
> find that if I watch live TV, I continue to get the STB audio even after
> I exit live TV.
>
> I should probably be addressing this on the pcHDTV forums, but I know a
> lot of people on this list have 5500s, so I thought I'd ask here too.
>
>


Mine is enabled also (I have two of the newer 5500 cards)...and it works
fine for audio from the QAM sources.  But for the external input (from the
STB), you need to pipe it into your sound card.  That's the way it's set
up on my system, and it seems to work fine.  If you get yours working
without having to do this - please let me know! :-)

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