Re: mythtv, ogle and alsa = no sound after watching dvd with ac3 passthru

Thu Nov 27 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> 
> following item 43 in the ogle faq, I am able to get ac-3 passthru audio from 
> the dvd movies, however, I get an error that ogle is unable to update the 
> iec958 control and of greater consequence, once I stop ogle, I have no audio 
> at all...
> 

> Basically, nothing comes out of my speakers. If I run mythtv and watch 
> livetv, I get no audio which suggests that audio is still playing (otherwise 
> live tv would likely fail in some way), but I am not hearing anything. 
> Stopping and restarting mythtv and alsa (and any related audio dependencies 
> like bttv and btaudio) has no impact on getting sound. The only way is to 
> reboot or (I think, can't remember if I tried this or not) do an "init 1 && 
> init 5"

Reloading the sound modules might work too.
I don't know why this happens. It sounds like a bug in alsa, since you
can't get any audio after ogle is closed.
Is it the same with ogle-0.9.2?

/Björn