[mythtv] no more live tv
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Apr 29 23:59:10 EDT 2003
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 10:02 pm, David Engel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:56:11PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > You've got something else running that is holding onto /dev/dsp and
> > preventing mythtv from opening it.
>
> Right you are, artsd was running! Now, my question is why does this
> matter to mythtv? I'm using a PVR 250 so mythtv doesn't need to open
> the sound device for input and the ALSA drivers support hardware
> mixing so multiple programs should be able to open the sound device
> for output.
Apparently, it doesn't support hardware mixing on your hardware, as it was
blocking on the open.
Isaac
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