mythtv continued...

Bruce Labitt bruce.labitt at verizon.net
Sun Apr 15 19:50:06 EDT 2007


Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 14:43:07 kenta wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>>     
>>> The first is sound.  A couple of days ago I played with sound and was
>>> able to get the SPDIF output to play through my receiver.  Just now I
>>> tried to get sound from myth, but I have silence :(  If I try to run the
>>> sound utility now, I get no sound.  (myth is recording a session!)  At
>>> boot time I notice that ALSA has a problem - probably my hardware?  What
>>> should I look for?
>>>       
>> Try going into the audio control app/mixer and mute:  "EIC958 Playback".
>>     
>
> Its actually IEC958, and you wanted it unmuted (aka enabled) if you're pushing 
> audio out via spdif, but yes, that's usually the primary knob to twiddle. 
> Other more sensible sound cards like the Audigy have a knob called "digital 
> output" with the options to "enable" and "disable" it, but same difference.
>
>   
Thanks!  Sound works!  Now onto lirc!


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