Re: xawtv and sound
On Fri Mar 23 11:50:10 2001 Nate Amsden wrote...
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>Stan Brown wrote:
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>> However, there are still a couple of problems.
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>> 1. I am not getting sound from the TV chanel while it's runing. Sound seems to work
>> for everything else I have tried (festival, and playing a CDTOM, Realplayer).
>> What can I do find out why this is not working? I did check with tkmixer, and the
>> "video" volume control is about 2/3 of the way up.
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>you need the audio part of the card turned on, the module i use is 'msp3400'.
>so try 'modprobe msp3400'. if your card uses another form of sound chip then
>of course this won't work. looks like at least in the current bttv source
>the only sound drivers are msp3400 and tvaudio.
OK, I did modload msp3400, which loaded the module, but modload tvaudio, did
nothing. However I still (after restarting xawtv) don't have audio from it.
Perhaps I need to recompile the kernel with tvaudio?
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>> 3. Also the video fram seems to be shifted up about 1/3 of a frame. That is I see
>> the image starting about 1/3 of the frame with the top 1/3 showing on the bottom of
>> th eframe.
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>probably because the card either doesn't support overlay or your not in
>overlay mode
>but in 'capture'(i think?) mode. check cpu usage if its really high (more then
>say 5%) then most likely thats the reason. some video cards dont support
>overlay.
>my p200 with the TNT does and xawtv's cpu usage is 0.0%(running 640x480 16bit
>fullscreen).
Ut was defaulting to PAL, instead of NTSC, which suprisingly still produce a
picture. Fixed now.
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