Hello to all, I'm using a USB DVB-T dongle to connect a Playstation system to my laptop, It's a WinTV HVR 900 (Empia) by Hauppauge with an adapter for RCA connectors. If i run: mplayer -aspect 16/9 tv:// -tv input=1:alsa:adevice=hw.1:immediatemode=0 I can se the video and hear the sounds, but it's quite impossible to play games since there is a big delay (about 1 second) between the joypad input and the video. From mplayer man page: immediatemode=<bool> A value of 0 means capture and buffer audio and video together (default for MEncoder). A value of 1 (default for MPlayer) means to do video capture only and let the audio go through a loopback cable from the TV card to the sound card If I omit the option immediatemode=0 or I set it to 1, there's no sound but also no delay. Is it possible to capture/playback the sound with another process in parallel with the video capture? I've disabled pulseaudio management on the USB device hw:1,0 but when I run arecord it get stuck and exit with error: [fabio@darkstar ~]$ arecord -Dhw:1,0 -f S16_LE --rate=48000 -c2 Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo RIFF$�WAVEfmt ���data�arecord: pcm_read:1828: read error: Input/output error Thank you in advance for any help, my kindest regard, - Fabio This is the system configuration: [fabio@darkstar ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.7.9-1-ARCH. [fabio@darkstar ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 45 1 [Em28xxAudio ]: Em28xx-Audio - Em28xx Audio Empia Em28xx Audio [fabio@darkstar ~]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: STAC92xx Analog : STAC92xx Analog : playback 1 : capture 1 00-01: STAC92xx Digital : STAC92xx Digital : playback 1 01-00: Em28xx Audio : Empia 28xx Capture : capture 1 [fabio@darkstar ~]$ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_hda_intel 1 em28xx_alsa [fabio@darkstar ~]$ cat /proc/asound/devices 2: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 5: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 6: [ 0] : control 7: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture 8: [ 1] : control 33: : timer [fabio@darkstar ~]$ cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0c/info card: 1 device: 0 subdevice: 0 stream: CAPTURE id: Em28xx Audio name: Empia 28xx Capture subname: subdevice #0 class: 0 subclass: 0 subdevices_count: 1 subdevices_avail: 1 [fabio@darkstar ~]$ arecord -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) pulse PulseAudio Sound Server default:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers default:CARD=Em28xxAudio Em28xx Audio, Empia 28xx Capture Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=Em28xxAudio Em28xx Audio, Empia 28xx Capture Default Audio Device [fabio@darkstar ~]$ arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Em28xxAudio [Em28xx Audio], device 0: Em28xx Audio [Empia 28xx Capture] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [fabio@darkstar ~]$ amixer -c 1 Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [on] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'LFE',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [on] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Line In',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 23 [74%] Playback [on] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Microphone',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Video',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Phone',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Mono',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'AUX',0 Capabilities: volume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 31 Front Left: 31 [100%] Playback [off] Front Right: 31 [100%] Playback [off] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. 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