[mythtv-users] plextor convertx audio trouble

Jason mythtv at lakedaemon.net
Thu Jan 12 15:52:13 UTC 2006


Jason (mythtv at lakedaemon.net) wrote:
> I received my Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U this afternoon.  Other than
> needing to force hotplug with 'make install USE_UDEV=n', the install
> went smoothly. :)
> 
> Recording with gorecord went well, I can see and hear the file.
> gorecord reports using /dev/video and /dev/dsp1. 
> 
> I've used mythtv for over two years (well, since 0.7-8ish), never saw
> anything like this.
> 
> No matter what I try, mythbackend will only open /dev/sound/dsp.  I set
> it everywhere to /dev/dsp1, and when I enter setup again, it's changed to
> /dev/dsp... wtf?  So I went into mythconverg and changed the only
> value='AudioDevice' I have in settings to /dev/dsp1.  That sticks.
> Unfortunately, when mythfrontend is running remotely (the only way I
> ever run it), I get no audio.  An 'lsof | grep myth | grep dsp' yields 
> only one line with mythbackend opening /dev/sound/dsp....  
> 
> So I search the source (0.18.1), I can see some default values set to
> '/dev/dsp', but I don't see any hard-coded lines.
> 
> Right now, I'm re-merging (gentoo) mythtv with debugging support.  In
> the meantime, any ideas?

okay, little bit clearer head this morning.  Gentoo has a new ebuild for
a pre-release of 0.19.  I'll try that tonight.


Jason.


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