[Kwintv] sound won't turn off

[darwin Meredith]

I have one last question. I realize you guys don't
support KWINTV anymore but I wanted to say that I
thought the picture was pretty good in KWINTV and
everything worked fine except for the sound problem
after exiting KWINTV which is cause by my win tv card.
I will try to install QTvision but I am worried about
the sound. Is there anyway I can tell that a channel is
being used that kwintv didn't turn off after I exit it?
Would Gamix show it? I am worried that the channel
might be still open when I install QTvision and
QTvision might have problems. QTvision might even turn
off the channel.

Thanks,

darwin   



On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:18:11 -0400, George Staikos
wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:21, darwin Meredith
wrote:
> > I have ati all in wonder ve tv card. I am using suse
> > 8.2. When I exit kwintv the sound won't turn off.
When
> > I reboot my computer it the sound of the speakers
come
> > on. I did some research in the archieves and found
the
> > reason. Here it is,
> >  "The problem with TV sound starting with KDE is
> caused
> > by v4l loading from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  v4l is
> > loading the bttv module and that causes sound to
come
> > on.  If I remove the "Load" sound only starts when I
> > load bttv...  Of course, this isn't really helpful
as
> > v4l is required for QTVision...  My guess is that
the
> > bttv driver initializes the tv decoder chip on the
> card
> > expecting the tuner, tvaudio, msp3400 or videodev
> > module to deal with the sound (mute it).
> > The TV-Wonder-VE, and perhaps the WinTV card has
> > problems with the audio.  The card doesn't do it's
own
> > volume control.  The volume and muting is done
through
> > the Line-In rather than TV controls of the
> > mixer."
> 
>    There is a setting to select the mixer, but I don't
> know if it still works.  
> Otherwise, kwintv is mostly obsolete as development
> focusses on the rewrite.  
> Sorry.
> 
> > I haven't tried QTVision yet. I belive I will have
the
> > same problem.
> > I saw something about entering "load v4l" line into
> > XF86Config. Will I need to run a script? AI am a
> newbie
> > at linux.
> 
>   If you are a "newbie" you might have trouble with
> qtvision.  it is not 
> polished yet, and it's still very much "alpha" quality
> software.  I think we 
> did a great job to get it this far, but it still needs
> much work.  I 
> personally feel it is at least as good as the old
> kwintv, but there are 
> enough bugs and usability issues to keep it from
> regular use for now.  The 
> documentation is mostly sufficient for people of any
> skill level to get 
> qtvision working, and even trying will certainly help
> you learn anyways.
> 
> -- 
> George Staikos
> KDE Developer				http://www.kde.org/
> Staikos Computing Services
Inc.		http://www.staikos.net/
> 
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