[mythtv-users] Audio volume is low

[Greg Oliver]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Adams <madams9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 07:37 PM, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Mark Adams<madams9 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Greetings.  I was hoping someone could help me with a small issue I'm
>>> having.
>>>
>>> I'm running MythTV ver 0.22 under Mandriva 2010 installed from Mandriva's
>>> RPM repositories. Hardware includes:
>>> Wolfdale1333-D667 mainboard
>>> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
>>> 1GiB RAM
>>> Onboard 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
>>> G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] Video adapter
>>> And of course a some other stuff.
>>>
>>> The system installed smoothly and works well with the exception of audio
>>> volume. Audio for VLC, Dragon Player, Kaffeine, Amarok, Audacious2, Firefox,
>>> and everything else I've found is fine, however, MythTV requires that I
>>> crank the audio at the amplifier to near 100% to get an acceptable level on
>>> any media of any type.
>>>
>>> The audio is cabled out of the onboard sound's line out to the audio
>>> inputs on the TV (42" RCA LCD flat panel), then into an RCA RT238 home
>>> theater amp. via L and R Audio outs on the TV (no SPDIF). Everything works
>>> in terms of the volume and mute controls in MythTV -- I just can't get
>>> suitable amplitude out of the system even with the volume in MythTV cranked
>>> to 100%. I believe this to be a MythTV issue because everything else works
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> Can somebody point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark
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>>
>> Fire up `alsamixer` and verify the front sound is set all the way up
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yup, been through alsamixer, alsactl and they work just fine.  All those
> relevant channels are maxed out.
>

Does the problem go away when you disable mythtv internal volume controls?