On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:23 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009 20:22, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound. > > > > mplayer gives me a terrible picture and no sound. > > > > (terrible = inverted picture with green background; just black and > > magenta for colours; and vertical lines running through it.) > > > > Is there a way to find out which video codecs etc. tvtime is using so I > > can duplicate them in mplayer. tvtime -v doesn't tell me (I think) nor > > is mplayer -v helpful. > > > > I have tried the sound with PulseAudio installed and removed. No > > difference. > > <enormous skip> > > P.S. I am starting a new thread because a lot of information has > > changed since my original thread. > > -- > > Regards Bill > > Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 > > Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1 > > Hi Bill. > > I did a whole bunch of googling about your problem with the sound, and did > find this on the v4l wiki for DVB. See below for link, etc. > > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Cx88_devices_%28cx2388x%29 I appreciate the your time and effort. I reviewed the site. Thanks. > > The suggestion is to load the following module, which affectively will create > another soundcard for capture from the TV card. > > modprobe cx88-alsa Placed it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local for the time being (modules are a subject for another day) > > For me, that also installed the cx88 module, and another bunch of modules > related to v4l. As I don't have your TV card, or any TV card on this machine, > I suspect the only extra modules you will see in lsmod is cx88, and > cx88-alsa. You may now see 2 cards listed from the following command. > > cat /proc/asound/cards > ]$ lsmod | grep cx88_alsa cx88_alsa 20488 0 cx88xx 75048 1 cx88_alsa videobuf_dma_sg 19972 3 cx88_alsa,cx88xx,cx23885 btcx_risc 12296 3 cx88_alsa,cx88xx,cx23885 snd_pcm 85640 3 cx88_alsa,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd 68984 17 cx88_alsa,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,\ snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep ]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xe5300000 irq 16 > If by some miracle you do, alsamixer as below should access controls for the > second card. > > alsamixer -D hw:1 (F4 again, if there are any capture controls) > Alas, no miracle. > The wiki link above suggests setting an alias line for cx88-alsa, and an > options line so that on bootup it's set as card1. Some modules create > problems and try to grab card0, which would create a conflict with your > onboard soundcard which is set to use card0. > > There is no /etc/modprobe.conf file in F10, and not being sure where to add > lines in /etc/modprobe.d's files, I simply created a modprobe.conf file > in /etc, so that I could place an options line for my usb midi keyboard, and > it appears to work ok. I would suggest that you might do the same, and add > the following lines to it. > > alias snd-card-1 cx88-alsa > options cx88-alsa index=1 No point unless a second sound card has been created. > I am now getting some ticking sounds as if mplayer is trying to produce sound. I will keep tweaking and fiddling. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines