[mythtv-users] Onboard sound full-duplex ?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Oct 13 18:28:06 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 13 October 2004 02:11 pm, Maarten wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 19:29, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:03:18PM +0200, Maarten wrote:
> > > Maybe there is another solution I just thought of:  If you can make
> > > sure that mythtv _always_ uses Card_1 for playback, there should be no
> > > problems, right ?  Can that be done or is that infeasible ?  I think
> > > that would be impossible, seen as one cannot predict which card is free
> > > at which time, correct ?
> >
> > Card 1 being the first capture card or the first sound card? You specify
> > the audio device for playback, so you can always play out through the
> > builtin device.
>
> With card_1 I meant the first capture card, not the first soundcard.  But I
> don't really think that makes any difference; you'll have two combos of
> <<capture card + connected soundcard>>.  And if one of those combos lack
> full-duplex, it will not be able to playback (or -worse- it could fsck up
> the ongoing recording when selecting it for playback).

Why would you be using multiple soundcards for playback?  

Isaac


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