[mythtv-users] alsa support in myth (was: Latest atrpms kernel ...)

[John Knottenbelt]

I'm working on a patch to improve the ALSA support -- adding a configuration 
option in the dialog boxes, and improving the synchronisation. It will 
require recent ALSA libs, though - 0.9.6 or later.

Cheers

John

On Thursday 28 August 2003 8:48 am, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> taking this to the list.
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:42:39PM -0400, Michael Novich wrote:
> > Ok, its almost done. I found an update statement to set mythtv to use
> > alsa, but alas, alsa is not compiled as an option into the myth distro
> > available through apt-get. Any idea why?  That's the complain that comes
> > up when trying to play video.
>
> This request reappears every now and then. Lately Paul (Cced) checked
> out the situation, but he finally suggested to not include the ALSA
> patch (or activation?) for now in the rpms, as it didn't improve his
> situation.
>
> I don't know, what the benefits of the native ALSA support really are
> (probably less overhead and better latency I suppose), but usually
> alsa in mythtv is not considered as a necessity.
>
> If the patch/activation has no drawbacks (e.g. not-ALSA supported
> soundcard should still work) I'd be happy to include it, but since
> Isaac did not with 0.11, it sounds maybe like being premature.
>
> > Now, before I used the update statement, I got a black screen, now I see
> > the video, but no audio. I asume the audio is the problem and I hope the
> > s-video out on the motherboard is working right.
>
> I forgot what your hardware was. If this is ivtv based, it sounds like
> some known problem which went away with the latest CVS version (rpm
> packaged).