[mythtv-users] Sound in recordings and livetv

wouter lists wouter.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jul 20 18:55:58 UTC 2006


ok, I think there is some misunderstanding. My capture card is saa7134 based
and captures only stereo. So my recordings have stereo audio and my receiver
plays it in the front loudspeaker only.

BTW: how do you check what kind of media file you have? On windows I used
avicodec or gspot.



On 7/20/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/20/2006 03:10 AM, wouter lists wrote:
>
> > I tried it last night, but ALSA:spdif and ALSA:iec958 gives errors
> > that the device cannot be found.
> >
> > aplay -D spdif /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Error.wav
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition '
> > cards.HDA-Intel.pcm.iec958.2:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES10,AES2=0,AES3=2'
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> > returned error: No such file or directory
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3961:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file
> > or directory
> > ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM spdif
> > aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory
> >
> > Strange.
>
>
> It's iec958 (not spdif).  Try moving your asound.conf and then start the
> frontend. I.e.
>
> mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf-bak
>
> Also, aplay is likely to fail with iec958 (because you /must/ have a
> specific type of input for it to work), so test with mythfrontend using
> AC-3 passthrough and a recording that you know has an AC-3 stream.
>
> Mike
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