[mythtv-users] problem trying to watch TV

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Feb 6 12:36:38 EST 2003


On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:23 pm, Michael J. Sherman wrote:
> >>> I'm using RedHat 8.0.
> >>
> >>you using alsa or oss? If oss, you might give alsa a shot.
> >
> > Which soundcard (ie: can it do duplex) ?
>
> It's just an on-board sound card built into the motherboard.  Everything
> else I use in Linux (xmms, mplayer, xawtv, etc..) seem to have no
> problems.

None of those programs record audio, let alone record and playback 
simultaneously.

> I'm just having a host of issues with MythTV:
>
> 1) Trying to watch TV causes it to lock up (apparently this sound card
> issue)
> 2) Using MythMusic, when I choose the "Select Music" option mythmusic
> crashes.
> 3) Using MythMusic, when I choose the "Play Music" option there is
> nothing listed (even though it read everything in on startup as seen on
> the console).
> 4) In the Play Music screen I cannot edit the playlist
> 5) Trying to Import a CD also crashes MythMusic
>
> Is this program really that buggy?!?!?  It seems *completely* unusable
> in everything I try to do.  The *only* thing that works for me is
> viewing the schedule of programs.  That's it.  Everything else seems to
> crash or hang.

The mythmusic issues you describe are due to a bug in libcdaudio.  There's a 
fix in libcdaudio's sourceforge bug tracker.

Isaac


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