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Old 01-21-2007, 10:29 AM   #1
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Question For the final time answer me about Tvtime..!!


Dear All

I've asked this many times here and in other forums but not getting any replies. Am i the only one having this problem in the whole world?

Problem:
No sound in Tvtime. I have sound in all other areas except this. Tvtime runs fine but the sound control is always zero. No matter how much i hit the arrow keys, its just zero. Running from terminal doesn't provide any errors.

lsmod
Code:
[shrikant@shricore64 ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel          29277  2 
snd_hda_codec         199233  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy          12869  0 
snd_seq_oss            45505  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     17473  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                72161  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         18133  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            57313  0 
snd_mixer_oss          27201  3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               100681  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              35401  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    77289  9 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              20321  3 snd
snd_page_alloc         19665  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
Sound Card Info
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3...ddetect7xs.png

Volume Control Info
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1317/vlctrl5qp.png

Can anyone shed some light on this? I don't have 'alsaconf' installed. Dunno which package provides it.

Alsa Info
Code:
[shrikant@shricore64 ~]$ yum list installed | grep alsa
alsa-lib.x86_64                          1.0.12-2.fc6           installed       
alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.12-2.fc6           installed       
alsa-lib-devel.x86_64                    1.0.12-2.fc6           installed       
alsa-oss.x86_64                          1.0.12-3.fc6           installed       
alsa-oss-devel.x86_64                    1.0.12-3.fc6           installed       
alsa-tools.x86_64                        1.0.12-4.fc6           installed       
alsa-utils.x86_64                        1.0.12-3.fc6           installed       
alsamixergui.x86_64                      0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc6      installed

Some additional Info

Code:
[shrikant@shricore64 ~]$ tvtime -v
Running tvtime 1.0.1.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/shrikant/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
cpuinfo: CPU Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6600  @ 2.40GHz, family 6, model 15, stepping 6.
cpuinfo: CPU measured at 2397.654MHz.
tvtime: Cannot set priority to -10: Permission denied.
xcommon: Display :0.0, vendor The X.Org Foundation, vendor release 70101000
xfullscreen: Single-head detected, pixel aspect will be calculated.
xfullscreen: Pixel aspect ratio on the primary head is: 353/325 == 1.09.
xfullscreen: Using the XFree86-VidModeExtension to calculate fullscreen size.
xfullscreen: Fullscreen to 0,0 with size 1280x1024.
xcommon: Have XTest, will use it to ping the screensaver.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Window manager is Xfwm4 and is EWMH compliant.
xcommon: Using EWMH state fullscreen property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state above property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state below property.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Displaying in a 768x576 window inside 768x576 space.
xvoutput: Using XVIDEO adaptor 499: NV17 Video Texture.
speedycode: Using MMXEXT optimized functions.
station: Reading stationlist from /home/shrikant/.tvtime/stationlist.xml
videoinput: Using video4linux2 driver 'saa7134', card 'LifeView/Typhoon FlyVIDEO2000' (bus PCI:0000:07:01.0).
videoinput: Version is 526, capabilities 5010015.
videoinput: Maximum input width: 720 pixels.
tvtime: Sampling input at 720 pixels per scanline.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Displaying in a 768x576 window inside 768x576 space.
xcommon: Received a map, marking window as visible (63).
tvtime: Cleaning up.
Thank you for using tvtime.
Can it be that this alsa-lib.i386 is confusing Tvtime? I don't think so because i also have FC5_32bit and its the same case there. Is the only solution now is to buy a new sound card(compatible with Linux)? Is my motherboard too new or too rubbish for Linux? Should i blame Intel, Linux, Tvtime,or probably myself for buying a product and hoping to work in Linux?

If you need more info, please let me know.

Thanks for your patience.
 
Old 01-21-2007, 11:38 AM   #2
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Open volume control as shown in your volume control info picture. There select edit and preferences. Select more output controls ( like PCM ) and not just volume.

Also your selected input ( digital1 ) might be wrong. And instead of OSS you could try ALSA device. Also try other sound devices.

If I remember correctly one case application controlled output volume, but when application started it set PCM output volume to zero so there was nothing what I could hear.

What happens if start TVTIME and some music playing application like audio player same time? Does the music play from audio player also?

I don't have any experience about TVTIME so these are just my guesses of the problem.
 
Old 01-21-2007, 12:34 PM   #3
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Open volume control as shown in your volume control info picture. There select edit and preferences. Select more output controls ( like PCM ) and not just volume.
I don't have any other output controls, just volume and digital.

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Also your selected input ( digital1 ) might be wrong. And instead of OSS you could try ALSA device. Also try other sound devices.
I don't have any other option except OSS.

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What happens if start TVTIME and some music playing application like audio player same time? Does the music play from audio player also?
Everything plays perfectly except Tvtime. I can run multiple audio programs and all function fine.

Thanks for reply.
 
Old 01-21-2007, 01:02 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by shrikant.odugoudar
Everything plays perfectly except Tvtime. I can run multiple audio programs and all function fine.

Thanks for reply.
Well if something plays out at same time as TVtime is running then problem lies in sound input.

Stat TVtime and one terminal window. In terminal window start alsamixer.
In alsamixer press TAB ( to select capture )
Left/right arrow keys change capture source and up/down keys change value of selected source. M or space mutes/unmutes selected source.

Anyway you should see if capture sources are muted or in low volume setting.

Could you show a picture of alsamixer and capture sources when TVtime is running.
 
Old 01-21-2007, 04:34 PM   #5
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Can you plug a headphone into the Line Out of your tv card and hear sound? How is your tv card connected to your soundcard? You have tried adjusting the Line input in alsamixer?
 
Old 01-21-2007, 05:25 PM   #6
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Ok first of all my tv card is absolutely fine, i can hear sound from the line out, sadly all is fine in WinXP and i play tv regularly there coz i can't play here(the reason above).

Alsamixer
Code:
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument
Any other suggestions guys? TIA
 
Old 01-21-2007, 06:40 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shrikant.odugoudar
Ok first of all my tv card is absolutely fine, i can hear sound from the line out, sadly all is fine in WinXP and i play tv regularly there coz i can't play here(the reason above).

Alsamixer
Code:
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument
Any other suggestions guys? TIA
Nobody ever suggested that your tv card was broken. Problem is ( I think ) taht linux makes a wrong configuration for it.

Does alsamixer work if there are no other sound applications running ? If not then this should be fixed first. You could also try to upgrade to new 2.6.19 kernel ( came out this week ), It has newer alsa version but that ofcourse means that you have also reinstall all the kernel modules ( kmod ).

I my self have C2D E6300 system with VIA chipset and I use Intel HDA audio driver quite nicely these days ( there has been a slight looping sound issue but that is another matter ).

I am also curious why you have chosed to use OSS driver instead of ALSA?
 
Old 01-21-2007, 06:53 PM   #8
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I am also curious why you have chosed to use OSS driver instead of ALSA?
Mark no, i haven't chosen anything, as weird as it may seem, all my media players namely banshee, amarok, rhythmbox, kaffeine, totem, mplayer etc use alsa itself. But the volume control shows it as only OSS. Frankly i'm perplexed

Edit : Alsamixer doesn't work in any situation.
 
Old 01-21-2007, 06:58 PM   #9
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I my self have C2D E6300 system with VIA chipset and I use Intel HDA audio driver quite nicely these days ( there has been a slight looping sound issue but that is another matter ).
Like i said, sound is working fine man, its only this Tvtime which i'm getting troubles from.
 
Old 01-21-2007, 08:16 PM   #10
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Ok i updated my kernel to 2.6.19-1 and got all my alsa controls namely PCM,Surround,Front,Capture and LFE Alsamixer works fine. http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/931/alsamixer2sa.png
But Tvtime still sucks, I'm running outta ideas

Last edited by Hitboxx; 01-21-2007 at 08:24 PM.
 
Old 01-22-2007, 06:21 PM   #11
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Try different capture devices and different capture sources. Mute/ unmute them and so on.

Might be a good idea to check that atleast mic-in works. Then go to line in. If both works then go through all capture sources and hope that tvtime works.
 
Old 01-22-2007, 10:49 PM   #12
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Already did all these but still... you know the answer, nothing works.
 
Old 01-23-2007, 12:16 AM   #13
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Try picking the sound from line-in, this is what I have to do with my ATI tv-card.
 
Old 01-23-2007, 10:10 AM   #14
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analog mix

Have you tried installing the alsamixergui package then enable analog mix.
 
Old 01-23-2007, 03:38 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by glussier
Try picking the sound from line-in, this is what I have to do with my ATI tv-card.
Same here.
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Have you tried installing the alsamixergui package then enable analog mix.
Yes i got it and have played with it.

For the record, TV works perfect in Windows.

Thanks All.
 
  


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