[mythtv-users] Long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 , mostly OK except audio !!

Thu Jan 8 01:05:30 UTC 2015

Hoi Sholla,

Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 2:03:00 PM, you wrote:

> I am doing a long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 on a fairly new system
> with pvr-350 and the set top box.

> Compiled the mythtv from the git sources and installed it. From this
> mailing list, understood that the myth database cannot be imported.
> So I configured one input source and one channel for the purpose of
> testing. Now LiveTV is OK but the problem is audio...

> On this system I have the following audio connectors

> - Intel HDA with Realtek ALC 662

> - one SPDIF out  - (this is connected to an A/V receiver and mplayer
> can play the AC3 streams fine, but this receiver is "going away", so this
> port will be  useless soon)

> - 3-port stack (labelled as LineIn, LineOut and Mic)
> I want to configure this as a 6-channel audio playback. If I do this
> I loose the LineIn port. Earlier I had cabled the pvr-350 audio output
> to system LineIn. So now i took the  pvr-350 lineout direct to
> the TV speakers.  Trouble is I am not getting any sound ..

> (no, I am not worried about the 6-channel setup as of now, just
> the basic audio connection)

> I observed two things..

> - In 0.21 I had seen the following config screen under
>   Settings/TV Settings/Playback:

> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Hardware Decoding Settings:
> [x] Use the PVR-350;s TV out/MPEG decoder
>      Video device for the PVR-350 MPEG decoder:  [/dev/video16]
>     
>       Program Guide Alpha:  [164]
> [-]  TV audio through PVR-350 only

> <cancel/back/Next>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> I cannot seem to find a similar settings. Is this gone ?

> - In 0.27.4 under  Setup/Audio, I tried inputting
> ALSA:default, ALSA:Default, but it throws up saying
> invalid device..

> I want to ask the veterans, is my audio configuration
> feasible ?  How should I proceed ?

> thanks
> sholla

> ----------------------------------------------

> root at d510mo:~# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> lirc_serial            10294  0
> ir_lirc_codec           4757  0
> rc_hauppauge            2152  0
> ir_kbd_i2c              5359  0
> lirc_dev               12544  2 lirc_serial,ir_lirc_codec
> rc_core                19696  5
> ir_lirc_codec,rc_hauppauge,ir_kbd_i2c,lirc_dev
> psmouse                76285  0
> snd_hda_codec_realtek    43758  1
> coretemp                4638  0
> serio_raw               4405  0
> snd_hda_intel          33025  0
> snd_hda_codec         157412  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
> intel_agp               9769  0
> intel_gtt              11308  2 intel_agp
> snd_hwdep               5456  1 snd_hda_codec
> ivtvfb                 11926  4
> ivtv_alsa               6370  0
> snd_pcm                77547  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,ivtv_alsa
> snd_page_alloc          7554  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> snd_timer              17897  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    59820  7
> snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,ivtv_alsa,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> tuner_simple           13537  1
> tuner_types            15400  1 tuner_simple
> tuner                  15725  1
> msp3400                27639  1
> saa7127                 8441  1
> saa7115                14879  1
> ivtv                  142550  2 ivtvfb,ivtv_alsa
> tveeprom               11712  1 ivtv
> i2c_algo_bit            5038  1 ivtv
> cx2341x                18449  1 ivtv
> v4l2_common             5408  6
> tuner,msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,ivtv,cx2341x
> videodev              103303  8
> ivtv_alsa,tuner,msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,ivtv,cx2341x,v4l2_common

> mythfrontend logs (snipped):

> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433509 I  Setup Interrupt handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433587 I  Setup Terminated handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433620 I  Setup Segmentation fault handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433650 I  Setup Aborted handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433680 I  Setup Bus error handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433718 I  Setup Floating point exception handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433749 I  Setup Illegal instruction handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433792 I  Setup Real-time signal 0 handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433829 I  Setup User defined signal 1 handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.433972 I  Setup User defined signal 2 handler
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.434245 C  mythfrontend version: exported
> [v0.27.4-27-g40506c2-dirty] www.mythtv.org
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.434281 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.6, runtime: 4.8.6
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.434301 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.434362 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.445708 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.445753 N  Using configuration directory = /home/mythtv/.mythtv
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.446070 I  Assumed character encoding:
> 2015-01-07 12:56:06.446105 W  This application expects to be
> running a locale that specifies a UTF-8
> codeset, and many features may behave improperly with your current language settings. Please set the
> LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE, and LANG variable(s) in the environment in which this program is executed to
> include a UTF-8 codeset (such as 'en_US.UTF-8').

> ...

> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.456019 I  TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.456043 I  TV: State is LiveTV & mctx == ctx
> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.459214 I  TV: UpdateOSDInput done
> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.459252 I  TV: UpdateLCD done
> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.460632 I  TV: ITVRestart done
> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.463035 I  TV: Main UI disabled.
> 2015-01-07 13:04:38.463081 I  TV: Entering main playback loop.
> greedyhdeint: size changed from 0 x 0 -> 480 x 576
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.520961 I  AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.521129 I  AFD: Opened codec 0xa479be0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.539926 I  Using 720x576 50.000 Hz
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.539990 I  Setup Interrupt handler
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.540014 I  Setup Terminated handler
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.562209 I  Setup Interrupt handler
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.562238 I  Setup Terminated handler
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.562863 I  VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'PVR350'
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.562896 I  VideoOutput: CalcHueBase(PVR350):
> Unknown adaptor, hue may be wrong.
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.562916 I  VideoOutput: Please open a ticket if you need to adjust the hue.
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.711731 I  OSD: Base theme size: 800x600
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.711778 I  OSD: Scaling factors: 0.6x0.915
> ALSA lib
> /mnt/basecf/wspace2/shunti/build/tmp/work/i686-tej-linux/alsa-lib/1.0.27.2-r0/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/src/pcm/pcm_multi.c:1185:(_snd_pcm_multi_open)
> Unknown field pcm
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.843115 I  AFD: Opened codec 0xa48f950, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.843201 I  AOBase: Opening audio device
> 'default' ch 2(2) sr 48000 sf signed 16
> bit reenc 0
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.844305 E  ALSA: snd_pcm_open("default"): Invalid argument
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.844389 E  AudioOutput Error: Aborting reconfigure
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.844461 N  AudioPlayer: Disabling Audio, reason is: Aborting reconfigure
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.950384 I  OSD: Base theme size: 800x600
> 2015-01-07 13:04:39.950437 I  OSD: Scaling factors: 0.6x0.96
> 2015-01-07 13:04:40.165087 I  VideoOutput: Created YV12 OSD.

What is 'a fairly new system'? Does it perchance involve pulseaudio?

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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