[NTLUG:Discuss] MythTV sound issue

[Chuck Graf]

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> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:52:45 -0500
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] MythTV sound issue
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> I remember on one of my rare visits to a meeting, I saw a great toy that
> one of the users brought in.  It was a MythTV box (upon which I based my
> own box) that was packed full of goodies including that "Linux Only" TV
> capture card.  He had based his installation on Knoppmyth.  Following in
> his footsteps, I had attempted the same thing, but my system board was very
> different in that the hard drives are on SATA and the DVD writer is on some
> IDE that is actually some RAID controller.  It's a weird motherboard I
> know...   Anyway, my experiences with Knoppmyth were all but
> non-functional.  So I attempted again using Fedora Core 5.  I'm getting a
> lot more success though I have some issues with sound.  And I recall that
> the person with his MythTV box was also encountering problems with sound.
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> So I ask you, anonymous stranger, did you ever overcome your sound problem?
>  And if so, how?  I think my symptoms are the same as yours.  From the lite
> reading I have done so far, I am guessing that MythTV relies on ALSA and I
> don't have that turned on... not yet anyway.
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> And if anyone else has any suggestions..?  I'm listening! :)
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That was my box, and I did get sound at some point, but I think i resorted to 
taking sound from the TV Tuner card (jumpered to line-in maybe?).  I worked 
on it for a couple of months, and got the box working sort-of, with lots of 
dropped frames and video artifacts, then ran out of room on the hard drive, 
and it would not boot.  Reinstalling it never worked (I did not have the 
patience to work it all out again).

I think a couple people are going to bring KnoppMyth boxes to the next install 
thing.  I will be there anyway.  Maybe two heads are better than one.

Chuck