[MPlayer-users] tv sound (was: tv hang)

[ilab]

On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:11, ilab wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been watching tv with kdetv so far, but I need to record some stuff
>  for which I planned to use mencoder. So I am trying to use mplayer for
>  watching tv first.
>
> I have faced the problem that I have decent quality picture, but no sound.
> I have found this issue in the list archive and on google too, but no
> solution yet.
>
> So, I have both picture and sound with kdetv.
>
> I have picture with mplayer (tv2 from hungary):
> mplayer tv:// -tv
> driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:fps=25:width=768:height=576:
> outfmt=yuy2:norm=PAL:normid=2:brightness=60:contrast=25:saturation=100:
> hue=50:amode=0:freq=559.25
>
> But mplayer just says
> 	...
> 	Audio: no sound
> 	Starting playback...
> And true, there is no sound at all.
>
> I dont see anything in the verbose output using  -v -v -v switches that
> could describe why I dont have sound.
>
> If I append :forceaudio:immediatemode to the switches then I can hear the
> sound recorded by the mic with about 2 seconds delay. Strange, but it
> doesnt matter if I switch off the capture of mic in alsamixer, the only way
> to get rid of this is switching off the capture channel (and doesnt matter
> whether the capture of aux is on or off).
>
> I use
> blabla:~$ mplayer
> MPlayer SuSE Linux 10.0 (i686)-Packman-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> and I think there is almost all relevant information in this line :)
>
> I use alsa + oss emulation.
> Xmms works with both alsa and oss sound systems so the problem is
> definitely not a blocked /dev/dsp or something like that.
>
> I would highly appreciate any help :)
>
> Thanx in advance,
> ilab

Solution: 
$ v4lctl volume mute off movie audio stereo
$ mplayer tv:// ...
It might help some other guys too.

Bye,
ilab