Mailing List Archive: More Sound Issues

More Sound Issues - SB Live! bttv card.

Jul 21, 2003, 6:27 AM

Post #1 of 3 (821 views)

I have searched the archives, but with the vast amount of sound problems
in there, I was unable to find anything that helped me yet.

So, I am going to ask and see if anyone has any answers for me...

I have a RedHat 9 box with a Sound Blaster Live! Card in it, I can play
movies and music fine, and I can "cat" sounds to /dev/dsp. I cannot use
"aplay" and point it to /dev/dsp though, it tells me "no such device"...

The main problem I am having is with sound coming from my DirecTV box.
I have an older Hauppage(sp?) card that works fine and I can see the
video no problem. I am using the S-Video as my input source. If I
start Xawtv, I can fiddle with the channels and get a bit of distorted
sound, but I cannot get a nice, clear sound source...

I am using the sound drivers that RedHat installed when I loaded this
box, I had seen several messages about alsa having problems with SB
Live! cards so wanted to stay away from more problems.

If anyone has pointers or an example setup that they may have, that
would be awesome! I imagine that there are probably many out there who
have RH9 and an SB Live! card and even an older WinTv card...

Anyway, pointers and tips or complete solutions would be very welcome!
I REALLY want to get to a point were I can RECORD shows, at the moment
all I can do is watch existing videos, listen to music and browse
photos...

Thanks!!!

Brent Michalski

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Re: More Sound Issues - SB Live! bttv card. [ In reply to ]

GameGod at sympatico

Jul 21, 2003, 7:25 AM

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Did you compile ALSA yourself?
If not, try following the instructions on the MythTV site for that...
(They're really good...)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Michalski" <brent@perlguy.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] More Sound Issues - SB Live! bttv card.

> I have searched the archives, but with the vast amount of sound problems
> in there, I was unable to find anything that helped me yet.
>
> So, I am going to ask and see if anyone has any answers for me...
>
> I have a RedHat 9 box with a Sound Blaster Live! Card in it, I can play
> movies and music fine, and I can "cat" sounds to /dev/dsp. I cannot use
> "aplay" and point it to /dev/dsp though, it tells me "no such device"...
>
> The main problem I am having is with sound coming from my DirecTV box.
> I have an older Hauppage(sp?) card that works fine and I can see the
> video no problem. I am using the S-Video as my input source. If I
> start Xawtv, I can fiddle with the channels and get a bit of distorted
> sound, but I cannot get a nice, clear sound source...
>
> I am using the sound drivers that RedHat installed when I loaded this
> box, I had seen several messages about alsa having problems with SB
> Live! cards so wanted to stay away from more problems.
>
> If anyone has pointers or an example setup that they may have, that
> would be awesome! I imagine that there are probably many out there who
> have RH9 and an SB Live! card and even an older WinTv card...
>
> Anyway, pointers and tips or complete solutions would be very welcome!
> I REALLY want to get to a point were I can RECORD shows, at the moment
> all I can do is watch existing videos, listen to music and browse
> photos...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Brent Michalski
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

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Re: More Sound Issues - SB Live! bttv card. [ In reply to ]

cmisip at insightbb

Jul 22, 2003, 5:44 PM

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I have an sb live but it is a sblive 5.1 using the emu10k1 chip. I have
redhat 9 and a Wintv Go as well. Does your sblive have emu10k1 chip. I
am using the oss drivers, not alsa and have no problems whatsoever.

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 08:27, Brent Michalski wrote:
> I have searched the archiv

> es, but with the vast amount of sound problems
> in there, I was unable to find anything that helped me yet.
>
> So, I am going to ask and see if anyone has any answers for me...
>
> I have a RedHat 9 box with a Sound Blaster Live! Card in it, I can play
> movies and music fine, and I can "cat" sounds to /dev/dsp. I cannot use
> "aplay" and point it to /dev/dsp though, it tells me "no such device"...
>
> The main problem I am having is with sound coming from my DirecTV box.
> I have an older Hauppage(sp?) card that works fine and I can see the
> video no problem. I am using the S-Video as my input source. If I
> start Xawtv, I can fiddle with the channels and get a bit of distorted
> sound, but I cannot get a nice, clear sound source...
>
> I am using the sound drivers that RedHat installed when I loaded this
> box, I had seen several messages about alsa having problems with SB
> Live! cards so wanted to stay away from more problems.
>
> If anyone has pointers or an example setup that they may have, that
> would be awesome! I imagine that there are probably many out there who
> have RH9 and an SB Live! card and even an older WinTv card...
>
> Anyway, pointers and tips or complete solutions would be very welcome!
> I REALLY want to get to a point were I can RECORD shows, at the moment
> all I can do is watch existing videos, listen to music and browse
> photos...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Brent Michalski
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users