On 9/17/06, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Marek wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Freevo setup with two sound cards - one used for general > > playback (alsa:hw:1) and the other one (alsa:hw:0) exclusively for > > capturing audio from TV (its AUX input is connected via a patch cable > > to the TV tuner card). > > In order to enable capture on alsa:hw:0 I use the VCR_PRE_REC cmd to > > select AUX as the capture source, set capture volume to a reasonable > > volume and enable capture. > > > > Everything works OK, that is the TV soundtrack is captured and encoded > > fine via mencoder, as long as I don't try to do any playback using > > MPlayer simultaneously. I have a lot o spare cycles (Pentium M 1.7) so > > performance is not an issue here but for some weird reason every time > > MPlayer is invoked by Freevo to play something using sound card 1, the > > capture settings on sound card 0 are reset as well (capture volume is > > set to 0 and capture is disabled). The result is a silent recording. > > > > I have verified that invoking MPlayer for playback manually (outside > > the Freevo framework, but using exactly the same cmd line - extracted > > from Freevo logs) does not reset the capture settings so the culprit > > here seem to be Freevo itself. > > > > I am stuck on this one, I took a look at Freevo source code but I > > don't see any fiddling with capture settings while invoking playback. > > Has any one encountered (and hopefully solved) such phenomenon ? > > > > Best regards, > > Adam Marek > Have you turned off CONTROL_ALL_AUDIO in the local_conf.py? > > The default is: > CONTROL_ALL_AUDIO = 1 # Should Freevo take complete > control of audio > > Otherwise there is something in mixer.py that would need to hacked away. > > Duncan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >
Setting CONTROL_ALL_AUDIO to 0 did the trick. Thanks a lot! Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
