65285 – Mythtv needs oss support to have sound

Bug 65285 - Mythtv needs oss support to have sound

Summary: Mythtv needs oss support to have sound

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage

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Reported:	2004-09-25 01:23 UTC by keir
Modified:	2004-09-26 22:25 UTC (History)
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Description keir 2004-09-25 01:23:05 UTC

If you compile mythtv-0.16 without oss support (i.e. USE="-oss") there will be no sound.  If you play a recording it will complain "Unable to create AudioOutput".  The mythtv people are saying you should always compile with oss support in Linux.    A lot of people leave -oss if they have moved onto alsa, and you don't get the expected behaviour.  This use flag should either be removed from this ebuild or have a warning bedisplayed that this is not the intended result.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="-oss" emerge mythtv
2. Record something
3. Try to play it

Actual Results:  
Complains "Unable to create AudioOutput"

Expected Results:  
Played recording with audio

This seems to only occur with mythtv-0.16

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8-gentoo-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache cvs sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa amd arts avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dga dvd
dvdread emacs encode ffmpeg foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk2 imlib java
javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mng motif moznoirc
mozsvgmpeg mysql ncurses nls nocstrike nodod nopfa nophysfs nopsyco noqmax
nvidia offensive oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl openssh oss pda pdflib perl png
prelink pythonqt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff
transcode truetype usb v4l x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"

Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-26 22:25:24 UTC

Nope. You just need to configure your setup properly for ALSA support. I've got it with -oss just fine. You need to output to alsa:default or better yet... setup a proper .asoundrc file... Look at the MythTV docs or the MythTV wiki for more info.