[mythtv-users] Soundblaster live and AC3 for MythDVD help

Gregg Farhat 3gemail at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 15:53:43 EST 2005


I have ver 1.0.7,  I will try the restore tomorrow night,  along with
the change in the asoundrc.  My device is 0,3.  I will let you know
how it goes.

-Gregg 


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:10:19 -0500, Kyle Rose <krose+mythtv at krose.org> wrote:
> Gregg Farhat <3gemail at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I removed the suggested items and applied the .asoundrc. It still
> > has the same results.  I did discover if I add -ac hwac3, -ao alsa9
> > I get no sound on dvd, but if I remove it I get static.  Any other
> > suggestions besides a hammer :) .  Thanks again for your help.
> 
> LOL, I almost did this once with a live because of this BS, but I
> doubt it would have helped.  Keep the faith. :) It's a great sound
> card, especially given the very low cost.  Given that I basically only
> ever use passthrough (except for playing Ogg/MP3 files, which are all
> 16 bit anyway), I doubt I will ever need anything different unless a
> non-S/PDIF digital interface appears.
> 
> Which version of alsa are you running?  I know I had problems with the
> different variants of 1.0.6, so make sure you're using 1.0.7 (not
> -rc?) or CVS.
> 
> Also, try xine instead of mplayer.  The alsa support on each piece of
> software is different, and frankly I've never gotten mplayer to work
> as reliably as xine even though xine's configuration seems more
> complicated at first.
> 
> Next, how is your Live wired to your AC3 decoder?  I use just the
> basic Live card with a coax connector going from (I believe) the white
> (left) channel on a stereo mini->RCA converter sitting in the top (?)
> mini jack, which on my card is gold instead of colored plastic, to the
> S/PDIF in on my receiver.  I'm doing this from memory, so it's a bit
> fuzzy.
> 
> Finally, try putting the attached asound.state into a file
> (e.g. /tmp/foo) and issuing "alsactl --file /tmp/foo restore".  This
> is my mixer config.  Since the Live has so many mixer settings that
> are so poorly documented, it took a lot of trial-and-error to get set
> up correctly.  If this works for you, I'll post a web page indicating
> how to get this set up because I'll have positive confirmation that it
> works for at least one other person. :) This will *only* work with
> 1.0.7, because some of the mixer controls changed names, etc.
> 
> Let me know what happens.  I'm curious to hear if it works.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle
> 
> 
>


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