Conrad's World

The biggest problem I am currently having with MythTV is sound. I have onboard sound which is theoretically disabled in the bios and a Sound Blaster Live! Value which is the one I want to use.

I have tried a number of things.

When I removed the Sound Blaster and tried to use the onboard, I lost all sound.

I tried to set a script to switch the default VLC sound driver to the Sound Blaster.

What really gets me is why the system even sees the onboard sound at all, disabling it from the bios should in theory keep the OS from knowing it is there at all.

What I belive is happening is that at boot time the system sees the two sound cards and assigns them an address, either hw0 or hw1, but not the same every time. So if I boot and the Sound Blaster is set to hw1 and VLC is set to use hw1 then it works, but it is set to hw0 it does not. In this case I have to exit out of MythTV, open VLC preferences and switch the sound hardware address manually, then restart MythTV. Try talking your wife through that over the phone.

I want MythTV to work without having a mouse connected.

I also can't seem to get ISO's to have sound. I belive on this issue I just haven not found the right command switch to open the file.

These issues make me want to give Vista MCE a try. Another plus with using Vista is that I will be able to stream Netflix.

If I can find any of the answers for any of these problems I will update here, if not I will post about Vista MCE.