[mythtv-users] Audio volume is low

[Mark Adams]

On 04/10/2010 08:16 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Adams<madams9 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 04/10/2010 07:37 PM, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Mark Adams<madams9 at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Greetings.  I was hoping someone could help me with a small issue I'm
>>>> having.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running MythTV ver 0.22 under Mandriva 2010 installed from Mandriva's
>>>> RPM repositories. Hardware includes:
>>>> Wolfdale1333-D667 mainboard
>>>> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
>>>> 1GiB RAM
>>>> Onboard 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
>>>> G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] Video adapter
>>>> And of course a some other stuff.
>>>>
>>>> The system installed smoothly and works well with the exception of audio
>>>> volume. Audio for VLC, Dragon Player, Kaffeine, Amarok, Audacious2, Firefox,
>>>> and everything else I've found is fine, however, MythTV requires that I
>>>> crank the audio at the amplifier to near 100% to get an acceptable level on
>>>> any media of any type.
>>>>
>>>> The audio is cabled out of the onboard sound's line out to the audio
>>>> inputs on the TV (42" RCA LCD flat panel), then into an RCA RT238 home
>>>> theater amp. via L and R Audio outs on the TV (no SPDIF). Everything works
>>>> in terms of the volume and mute controls in MythTV -- I just can't get
>>>> suitable amplitude out of the system even with the volume in MythTV cranked
>>>> to 100%. I believe this to be a MythTV issue because everything else works
>>>> just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody point me in the right direction?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark
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>>>>          
>>> Fire up `alsamixer` and verify the front sound is set all the way up
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Yup, been through alsamixer, alsactl and they work just fine.  All those
>> relevant channels are maxed out.
>>
>>      
> Does the problem go away when you disable mythtv internal volume controls?
>
>
>    

Regrettably, it does not.


Mark