[mythtv-users] Could someone post a HowTo on btaudio please

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Sun Nov 30 09:31:05 EST 2003


On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:10, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > At 12:06 AM 11/30/2003 -0800, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks, actually one of the posts led me to look on my own system 
> >> (Redhat 9) for btaudio.o.  It's already on my system, now to get it 
> >> working there should be enough information in the other posts.  What 
> >> I'm unsure of is if my board (WinTV Go) works with it.
> > 
> > 
> > The WinTV Go vidcap card does NOT work with btaudio ... at least the 
> > vintage of that card that uses the bttv driver does not. If you searched 
> > the list very thoroughly, you would find prior references to this. But 
> > they are hard to find ... this really is the sort of situation in which 
> > asking afresh makes more sense.
> > 
> >>  I found a reference to a WinTVGo Radio board that supposedly works.
> > 
> > 
> > I've seen this reference too. But the card is different from the plain 
> > WinTV Go card.
> > 
> >>   If I can't get it working, I won't know if I'm doing something wrong 
> >> of if the board won't work with btaudio.  If the btaudio module loads, 
> >> does that mean the board should work with it?  I think probably not.
> > 
> > 
> > Good guess. btaudio will load successfully with the WinTV Go card. But 
> > it won't actually deliver any audio.
> > 
> >> I'll keep plugging away at it...
> > 
> > 
> > Don't. Not unless you have a different card from the one you seem to be 
> > saying you have.
> > 
> Thanks for saving me tons of time.  Do the PVR-350 cards work with it? 
> I think I remember lots of references to those working...

The PVR-350 delivers an MPEG stream with the audio & video already multiplexed 
together, so you don't need a separate audio capture device.  In that case, 
you only need to configure your sound setup to support playback.

-JAC



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