On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:47 AM, William Case <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael; > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 07:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:52:00 -0400, William wrote: > > > > > Mplayer gives me sound from both my DVD/CD drive (which RhythmBox fails > > > to do) and video1 for tv (which tvtime fails to do). > > > > It's not accurate to say "tvtime fails", because it doesn't even try to > do > > what you think it does [apparently]. The implementation in tvtime is > > from 2005 and can only enable an analogue audio input channel. > > I have understood from the first time that you told me that tvtime does > not mix sound -- except for the simplest kind of volume control; that > ALSA is, or should be supplying the mixing. > > However, from a descriptive perspective, when I launch tvtime I get no > sound. I don't think anybody on "God's Green Earth" would misunderstand > what I am saying. What words would you suggest I choose to express that > meaning? > > Getting mplayer working as a replacement for tvtime is not the point of > this exercise. There is something clearly wrong with some drivers that > are related to ALSA. My system's sound chips are not terribly unique. > The whole world is going to the PCIe bus. Having a tuner that includes > both analogue and digital is not something that should be difficult to > overcome. As you point out, analogue is not being used. As you have > also pointed out, this is not about tvtime but about enabling one of the > under lying chips or drivers. > > Perhaps you can suggest another program that should be using alsa's > analog sound capability (or lack of that capability) and I will try to > get that going. > > Why don't you try using arecord+aplay for the sound? http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/roma/ALSA.html#recording -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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