Hi Everyone,<br><br>I am new on the list and relatively new to MythTV. I have been plugging away at my mythtv install for the past month or so. I am coming from a Windows based SageTV install. While SageTV was nice I found it to be unstable on my setup and had quite a few crashes etc. so I decided to give MythTV a shot. I still have my SageTV install on another partition so I could always go back to it as a last resort.
<br><br>My setup is as follows:<br><br>AMD 3700+ with an Nforce4 based motherboard<br>1 gig ram<br>1 40 gig hd<br>2 250 gig sata drives(for recordings and dvd rips etc)<br>on board sound(my problem at the moment)<br>OTA HD card
<br>DVB-S card<br><br>That's the setup basically. I am running an ubuntu based system with minimal packages installed. MythTV is an SVN from a few weeks ago. I am happy to say I have everything up and running and working smoothly except my sound. I am using SPDIF out to a Marantz DD/DTS capable receiver. Any content with Dolby Digital(
5.1 or 2.0) is working GREAT!! But if I tune to an SD channel which is just broadcasting plain old stereo the SPDIF output is very weak, sometime my speaker icons on my receiver will just blink a couple times and then nothing and other times they will stay lit but the sound is barely audible at full volume on my receiver. At that volume I should be going deaf!! Same behaviour if I try to play an mp3 outside of MythTV say in XMMS or aplay or something similar.
<br><br>I have farted around with the mixer settings and with the asound.conf, tried with and without one. I did have sound working beautifully but I seem to have broke it when trying to get mplayer or xine to play dvd's with multi channel sound. I can't for the life of me find any mixer setting or anything that will increase the output of my 2 channel audio on spdif.
<br><br>Anyone experienced this before? Most of the posts and pages I have read refer to people who just can't get it working. Mine works just no volume.<br><br>Any help would be appreciated. I am ready to shoot myself in the face, been working at this for a few days now with no love. If I need to post more info please ask me, I am a bit of a linux newb so not sure what all info you may require.
<br><br>Thanks in advance!!<br><br>Kevin<br>