Description of problem: xawtv is trying to open an alsa capture device directly, like "hw:2,0", and this returns -EBUSY because pulseaudio opens the capture device too. The only way to get sound from xawtv is to disable the capture profile in pavucontrol, which is counter-intuitive and untrivial to find (and undesirable). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xawtv-3.103-1.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Easily Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable capture profile for your tv tuner card in pavucontrol 2. Run xawtv Actual results: Video is there but no sound Expected results: Video and sound Additional info:
Xawtv is a very old application, originally written at OSS time (yet no ALSA at all). I wonder whether it can capture something at all without some OSS compatibility installed/activated in the system. AFAIK upstream is stalled year ago, and it seems nothing will happen with pulseaudio support implementation. Try another applications for capturing with audio (fe. mplayer or ffmpeg from rpmfusion repo).
(In reply to Dmitry Butskoy from comment #1) > Xawtv is a very old application, originally written at OSS time (yet no ALSA > at all). No, that's wrong. xawtv supports alsa very well: http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/xawtv3.git/tree/common/alsa_stream.c What missing is perhaps only the ability to redirect the capture device to PA. > I wonder whether it can capture something at all without some OSS > compatibility installed/activated in the system. It can and does so very well! But... only if PA releases the capture device. Please note that this is not a problem with playback device. I can easily redirect the playback device to PA, but for capture I haven't found the way. > AFAIK upstream is stalled year ago, and it seems nothing will happen with > pulseaudio support implementation. Mauro, do you agree with that judgement? I am fine with closing that bug if it is not relevant, but I think the provided reasoning is invalid, so I take a liberty to re-open it for now.
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