[mythtv-users] native ALSA - what device?

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Tue Feb 3 07:18:44 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:42:35AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I built myth 0.14 with native ALSA support. What do I put in the
> front-end setup to use it? I thought "hw:0,0" might do it, but then when
> watching live TV myth just complained about being unable to open the
> sound device.
> 
> I was using /dev/dsp for OSS emulation previously and that worked.

The correct answer is:

ALSA:hw:0,0


I couldn't find this in any of the documentation, but tracked it down in
the source code. Could somebody add it please?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>


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