[mythtv-users] No audio with flash-player

Alan Ferrero alanf at tin.it
Thu Jan 20 13:27:06 UTC 2011


 > > My problem: with flash-player, although video is great, there's no
 > > audio
 > > at all! :(
 > >
 > > Both MythTV 0.24 and Firefox are affected; sound in every other
 > > (non-flash) application works just fine.
 > >
 > > I'm running Mythbuntu 9.10 (64 bit) and using ALSA; I don't have
 > > PulseAudio installed (I checked that out) but I strangely do have the
 > > following packages (because of VLC, I guess): libpulse0,
 > > vlc-plugin-pulse, libasound2-plugins.
 > >
 > > Sound is presently sent to the TV set by HDMI, but in the beginning HD
 > > audio was enabled on the MB; later, I disabled it in the BIOS as
 > > suggested here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ATI_Radeon_HDMI
 > >
 > > In alsamixer there's only iec958 (up & running).
 > >
 > > I followed the guide here:
 > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tutorial in order to edit my
 > > asound.conf which just contains:
 > >
 > > ctl.!default {
 > >     type hw
 > >     card 0
 > > }
 > >
 > I had a similar problem and cured it by setting the default but mine 
 > has a
 > device line and looks like this:
 >
 > pcm.!default {
 >        type hw
 >        card 1
 >        device 8
 > }

I tried with my card and device numbers but it still doesn't work! :(

 > What does this command show?
 > aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
  card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

 > Also what is in the setting for Audio device:
 > Service Menu / Mythtv Configuaration / Music Tools / Music Settings /
 > General Settings

I used the "scan" feature and then selected the "ALSA HDMI".

It's just flash however, sound everywhere else works well.

Alan


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