[mythtv] does Mythmusic audio output use myth library?

Daniel C. Casimiro dcasimiro at cox.net
Tue May 18 22:06:44 EDT 2004


You may also want to consider gstreamer 
(http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/).  I have experimented with it 
briefly, and it is pretty cool, IMHO.

~Dan

Ed Wildgoose wrote:

> James Armstrong wrote:
>
>> I finally got spdif to work in mythtv using ALSA:spdif as the device 
>> with AC3 passthrough disabled. Mythmusic however does not work, 
>> giving me a Timeout opening device. A quick glance at the code makes 
>> me think mythmusic is doing its own audio processing, not using the 
>> newer ALSA direct library that mythtv uses. Can this be confirmed?
>
>
>
> Yep, that's correct.
>
> It's on my TODO list to merge the two audio layers though.  I have 
> been looking at RTAudio as a *really* nice way of doing this.  But 
> it's Jack handling doesn't quite work for me.
>
> Anyway, I have written a Jack output layer, and it makes sense to try 
> and merge all these different audio output layers as far as possible, 
> but it's not entirely trivial because Mythmusic uses some stuff which 
> isn't in the main audio layer (eg larger buffers and an event system 
> to supply the visualisations with the samples at the same speed as the 
> card).
>
> Ed W
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>


More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list