thank you kindly for your response.
Most of my problems with sound have been because of file permissions.
i did indeed have such problems initially, but i added the mythtv user to the audio group, and i did "chmod 777 /dev/sound/dsp". still, though, no permutations of ALSA:xxx or /dev/xx/dsp are working. the mythtv user can aplay using the default ALSA device, without issue.
If you're attempting to use ALSA devices, make sure your myth is compiled with ALSA support.
i used the gentoo ebuild of mythtv-0.16, with both the alsa and oss make-flags switched on.
You don't mention an error message so there's part of me that wonders if you've
double-checked that you have sound coming in on the recorded video.
an excellent question, but indeed i have done so. i fixed the msp3400.ko situation on the backend and verified that the backend was fully functional before i proceeded to work on the remote frontend. a video that will play with sound on the backend plays without sound on the frontend.
i am getting no errors inside mythtv on the on-screen display, but the console output of mythfrontend is spitting out some errors. it says "Not in the running state, state=2". Sometimes it also says, "pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted".
btw - I don't believe you set the frontend audio output using mythsetup. It's done
through Setup -> General from mythfrontend, isn't it? Was that a typo
above?
it was, pardon me.
thanks very much for any help. i am just about at wits' end with this device. i must be overlooking something very basic, but i can't figure it out.
would it perhaps help to recompile mythtv with ALSA support, but without OSS?
cs
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