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Thu May 17 19:07:19 UTC 2012
didn't restart ALSA (best is if you restart the box to be honest). The
config that JY gave you should definitely work.
Igor
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Kevin Johnson <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:dabears_rule at yahoo.com" target=3D"_blank">dabears_rule at yahoo.co=
m</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"=
gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-=
left:1ex">
<table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" border=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td vali=
gn=3D"top" style=3D"font:inherit">Well things have changed, for the worse.<=
br>I tried as jyavenard suggested.=A0 Still had no sound outside of mythtv =
with hdmi.<br>
So, I decided to switch back to spdif as I had upgraded alsa in the last fe=
w days.=A0 I wanted to see if the popping sound still existed when I exit o=
r enter live tv.=A0 It still pops.<br>So I decided to ho back to hdmi.=A0 N=
ow when I try any of the hdmi options in the setup menu, then use test spea=
kers, I get an error "audio device is invalid or not useable"=A0 =
That goes for any of the hdmi choices.=A0 And of course there is no sound i=
n mythtv now.<br>
Not sure what is going on but I am considering a clean install.=A0 Somethin=
g is just hosed.<br>Right now I am using spdif and living with the popping =
sound.<br>Strange that spdif works everywhere but hdmi does not.=A0 If the =
spdif did not pop and hum, I would
just use it.<br>I will give this a few more days and maybe do a clean inst=
all this weekend.<br><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>________________=
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<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Hi Kevin,</div><div><br></div><div>First if=
you do changes in alsa config file then you need to restart ALSA or at lea=
st log off your current session=A0if your change .asoundrc file. Then after=
restart/login you should choose ALSA:default in MythTV as this option shou=
ld be now available in the menu settings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One problem I have with my ALSA, that's on Mythbunt=
u 10.04 with alsa 1.0.24, is that on every reboot ALSA changes my HDMI devi=
ce number. Sometimes it is card 1 device 3 and other times it creates it as=
card 2 device 3. That's why I have a script that on every reboot chang=
es the device numbers in .asoundrc file. So sometimes I would have:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,san=
s-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">p=
cm.!default {</div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans=
-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
=A0 =A0type plug</div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,s=
ans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"=
>=A0 =A0slave.pcm "dmix:1,3"</div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,3=
4);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-c=
olor:rgb(255,255,255)">
}</div></div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif=
;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></di=
v><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:=
12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
and other times:</div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,s=
ans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"=
><br></div><div style=3D"background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style=3D"c=
olor:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.66666698455810=
5px">
pcm.!default {</div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,san=
s-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">=A0 =A0type plug</div><div style=3D=
"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558=
105px">
=A0 =A0slave.pcm "dmix:2,3"</div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34=
);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">}</div><div =
style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6666=
66984558105px">
<br></div><div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;fo=
nt-size:12.666666984558105px">and all the applications (which is default se=
tting for most of them anyway) including MythTV I have set to use ALSA:defa=
ult device.</div>
<div style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12=
.666666984558105px"><br></div><div><font color=3D"#222222" face=3D"arial, s=
ans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12.666666984558105px">This problem obvi=
ously only=A0arises if you have ALL of the audio devices enabled. If you di=
sable the on-board audio, as given in the pointed tutorial above, you obvio=
usly won't have this problem since the HDMI will be the only output and=
always has the same device allocated.</span></font></div>
<div><font color=3D"#222222" face=3D"arial, sans-serif"><span style=3D"font=
-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color=3D"#22=
2222" face=3D"arial, sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12.66666698455810=
5px">From your last post though, I would say that after you did the change =
you didn't restart ALSA (best is if you restart the box to be honest). =
The config that JY gave you should=A0definitely=A0work.</span></font></div>
<div><font color=3D"#222222" face=3D"arial, sans-serif"><span style=3D"font=
-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color=3D"#22=
2222" face=3D"arial, sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12.66666698455810=
5px">Igor</span></font></div>
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