Re: tvtime

[hermann pitton <hermann.pitton@xxxxxx>]

Es schrieb Gene Heskett:
> 
> On Friday 26 December 2003 22:43, Marius Kotsbak wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:30:40PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Somebody on this list pointed me at tvtime, which is a whole lot
> >> more stable than xawtv.  I like it.
> >>
> >> But I do have a couple of problems.
> >>
> >> 1. The audio comes in on the kmix slider labeled microphone and is
> >> quite low level, I have to run the volume slider wide open to get
> >> decent room volume.  At that point, the kmail newmail notification
> >> notifies the neighbors, not a Good Thing(tm).
> >>
> >> 2.  Its own volume control, via the left-right arrow keys, has no
> >> effect.  Niether do any of the volume controls in the kmix bt878
> >> submenu.
> >
> >That is finetune, not volume. Use + and - on the numpad to change
> >volume! Try to change that to the max setting.
> 
> On this install, the label that pops up when you hit the left and
> right arrows and bring up a progress bar at the bottom of the screen,
> which is labeled volume.  Here, the left-right arrows, and the
> numpads +,- keys act identical.  The slider bar moves just fine, but
> it has zero actual effect on the volume.
> 

Hi,

and hmmm, what may it be.
The left and right arrow keys should indeed bring up finetune.
On most sound chips/cards the mic input is modified, better is to use
line or cd to start testing. Tvtime has an option
--mixer=/dev/mixerX:line ... mic,cd or whatever. You can set it in
tvtime.xml (/usr/local/etc/tvtime?) as default. Tvtime also attempts to
set the audio volume on the card itself to 95% on startup, because some
apps seem to set it to zero on exit. You can look for that with
v4l-info. VIDEOCGAUDIO volume is expected to be 58982. And then .tvtime
configs have changed again, so in case you have an old folder there, you
might let tvtime create a new one.
(As I understand even the released 2.6.0 needs at least the 19_videodev
patch, if you want to use latest drivers and there may be implications
using OSS, alsa_oss and btaudio at once.)

Greetings

Hermann