--- Jan Kat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After googling this problem for over a week, I'm > beginning to think > there is no solution. But hopefully someone here > can tell me once and > for all if this can be done or if it can't and I > just need to let it go > and move on. > > My setup: > > Compaq DeskPro EN SFF - 400MHz Celeron (Mendocino), > 128MB RAM, ES1869 > onboard sound > > WinTV PVR-350 (model 48132, rev. K268) w/ tuner LG > TAPE H001F MK3 (type > 47) > > Gentoo 2005.4, kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 > (gentoo-sources) > > IVTV 0.4.0 (latest from IVTV site) > > MythTV 0.18.1-r1 (emerged) > > > My problem (and some history): > > The PC is a small form factor originally intended as > a network > appliance. Painted black, it looks sharp with my > other stereo > components. However, there is no audio line-in on > the rear bezel nor > pinned out on the motherboard. > > I started with a 2.4 kernel but couldn't tune in any > stations; an > upgrade to 2.6 seems to have fixed that (though it > could have been one > of the many other things I tried). Everything > works, but the audio from > live TV and playback comes through the PVR-350 (in > MythVideo, mplayer > plays video through the PVR-350 and audio through > the ES1869). > > As noted, I can't loopback audio from the PVR-350 to > the ES1869 as there > is no line-in. I know that audio can be pulled > directly over the PCI > bus from bttv cards; I'm wondering if the same can > be done with a > PVR-350, and how I would set that up? > > I read that MythTV 0.18.1 fixes "live TV audio loss > when viewing mpeg2 > transport streams." That sure sounds like my > problem, but maybe I've > misconfigured something so that bug fix isn't > implemented? Maybe > Gentoo's MythTV-0.18.1-r1 is configured a certain > way and I need to > unmerge it and download and compile directly from > the MythTV site? > > I have one PCI slot free so I can put another sound > card in, but I find > this solution distasteful as I already have a > perfectly good (if > incomplete) sound card on the motherboard (which > took some effort to set > up, too). But if I have no choice, I have no > choice. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > You have two options here: 1. Don't use the PVR-350 MPEG-2 decoder for watching shows. Use Xv that is provided with the newest drivers (0.4.x). 2. Put in a second sound card and use it for looping the sound. -- Joe __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
