Hauppauge WinTV-HVR3000 - Analogue TV - No sound

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I am using 11.1, and have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.29 so that I can use this TV card.

DVB-T works perfectly, but I cannot get any sound on analogue TV. I have tried KDETV, XAWTV, and TVtime. I get perfect pictures from all of them, but no sound.

All other applications which use sound work perfectly.

I have Googled the problem, and found many references to sound problems, but no solutions which seem to apply to my case.

I would be grateful if anyone could help.

Thanks in advance.

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UPDATE:

I found some useful information here.

I installed “sox”, and, by opening a terminal and issuing the following modified version of the command given in the link above, got sound to work on kdetv and xawtv. TVtime just gives white noise.

sox -c2 -s -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp1 -t ossdsp -r 32000 /dev/dsp

I’ve no idea what this command does. As soon as I close the terminal, all sound ceases.

I have to open a terminal and issue the command whenever I start kdetv, etc, and leave it open to get sound.

So, I need to figure out how to use this information to change the settings in the applications so that it all happens automatically.

I don’t have a clue where to start!

Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Hi
You need to use ampersand (background the process) and exit;


sox -c2 -s -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp1 -t ossdsp -r 32000 /dev/dsp &
exit

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Thanks, Malcolm. That works perfectly.

The next stage is to incorporate this function into kdetv (or xawtv). I guess I need to add a script somewhere. Any ideas?

Thank you again for your help.