On Saturday 12 December 2009 19:05:08 transcode-users-requ...@exit1.org wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > It must be the most frequent plainted cry, sorry! If anybody can offer > > any help, guidence or criticism I would be most grateful. > > I'd like to offer a pulseaudio import module, because PA will only > become more and more popular (and it is already is) and it is just not > convenient to ignore it or to have to avoid it in order to import audio. > > And since this NOT means to any extent removing or de-powering the > existing OSS and ALSA modules, I think that should not harm anyone ;) > > Anyway, it's worth doing some investigation in here. > > > My video in (always works) is a v4l osprey 100 card. > > Audio is line in on the sound card. > > Forgive me for asking, but I'd like to clean out the easy parts first: > 1) /dev/dsp is always connected to the right line in (e.g. strange udev > setup, anything...) > 2) volumes are always > 0? I'm asking because you said sometimes it > works and sometims it is not (maybe another application is playing with > the volumes in background).
AND > I might add: > 3) Are you sure it's not a bad audio cable or a loose connector on the > sound card or audio source? I've had weird audio problems stump me for > months until I accidentally kicked the audio cord and realized that the > audio cut out right at that moment... The fact that I can *always* play with aplay /dev/dsp says mixer settings, cables, everything along the path is guaranteed to be working (I've not tried aplay together with transcode - if THAT worked I'd go and scratch my head [for anyone reading this that does not apreciate shareing, this *must* fail, that is what pulse tries to solve] Also lsof shows only transcode using the dev file, no transcode and usage is blank. Time to try alternative hardware ... Also strace does not show anything significant James
