[mythtv-users] Volume/Mute not working with Intel integrated audio on Ubuntu

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/23/2008 10:36 AM, Johnny Russ wrote:
>> Just a couple points to note:
>>
>>    1) internal volume control does not work with passthrough (and
>> cannot work with passthrough without softvol hacks or similar).
>>    2) if you're outputting multi-channel audio or "non-standard"
>> outputs in ALSA (Line, Headphone, any surround channel, etc.--basically
>> anything but PCM or Master), changing the master volume control will
>> have no effect with most ALSA drivers (and changing PCM volume control
>> will also, as expected, have no effect).
>>
>> Both are sound driver/sound system "features" and have nothing to do
>> with Myth.
> I know my way around Linux pretty good but I haven't really messed with any
> of the audio stuff, so this is new territory for me. I don't know what
> passthrough is. I gather that has something to do with passing audio from
> the line-in jack to the output? I am not doing anything special. I am just
> playing back SD mpeg from a PVR-150. The sound volume controls work fine
> outside of Myth. Also I am using Intel integrated audio on my BE/FE fine. I
> assume there is some setting that I need to adjust to let Myth know how to
> control the volume on my system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you're doing SDTV in the US (guess based on your e-mail domain name), 
you don't have AC-3 or DTS audio in your recordings, so passthrough 
doesn't apply.

What do you have set for Audio Output Device and Mixer Device and Mixer 
Controls in the Myth settings?

Mike