[mythtv-users] LiveTV audio missing

Chris gchris at bellsouth.net
Fri May 5 13:30:56 EDT 2006


> Hi there,
> 
> I'm running SuSE 10.0 i586, and have installed MythTV 0.19 from
> binary rpm's (Packman repository)
> 
> Everything seems to work, except for audio in LiveTV. No sound
> is either heard or recorded in LiveTV.
> 
> I have TVtime and it plays audio fine. My Pinnacle TV-card has
> its audio output plugged into a 2nd input on my motherboard that
> comes out as 'Aux' in alsa. MythTV shows no errors in the console
> so I'm stumped as to getting sound going in LiveTV...
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers as to a solution? The only sign of
> any trouble is the following message in dmesg, repeated a handful
> of times....
> 
> ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> 
> Despite this error audio works fine with every other software on
> the machine, both recording and playing...
> 
> Doing an fuser on /dev/dsp shows no process hogging it, and the
> same applies to /dev/mixer...
> 
> I'm stumped... :-(
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia.

Chris,
Open Kmix, click on the input tab and have a look at the "Line" control. 
  The green indicator at the top should be dark green (muted) and the 
red indicator at the bottom should be bright red (lit).  Clicking on the 
indicators changes their state.

Hope that helps,
Chris




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