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 The suggestion is to load the following module, which affectively will create another soundcard for capture from the TV card. modprobe cx88-alsa 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 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) 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 I don't know if the alias line will work for you, it didn't for me, but I don't have the TV card, so all the other stuff that your lsmod shows as being loaded, may be necessary for the alias line to work correctly. If after a reboot, the cx88, and cx88-alsa modules are not loaded, I would suggest adding the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, reboot, and check lsmod. modprobe cx88-alsa Also check cat /proc/asound/cards again, and see if 2 cards are showing. This is only a shot in the dark, but the cx88-alsa module may fix the sounds. All the best. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
