[mythtv-users] Can MythMusic use aRts or OSS?

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 06 June 2003 11:40 am, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> It does? That's strange, because every time that I start it MythMusic
> hangs and a raatling noise comes from the speakers (which I've not been
> able to turn off without rebooting). If I look in the process list there
> is en "esd" daemon running which wasn't there before. Looking through
> the docs I figured that MythMusic was using MAD to play music. If I use
> madplay to play the same files I don't get any sound, but the effect is
> the same: a esd daemon starts running and I can't do any audio until I
> kill it. MPlayer works without a hitch either using OSS or aRts to play.
>
> ANy suggestions how ESD might get involved and how I could get rid if it
> ? :-)

mythmusic is _not_ starting esd.  It uses the mad library for decoding only, 
not madplay itself.  Check the source if you don't believe me.  There's 
absolutely no way it can be starting esd.

Isaac