[mythtv-users] xbmc killed my sound

[Mark Boyum]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Andreas <linuxdreas at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> Am Saturday 11 October 2008 17:05:56 schrieb Brad DerManouelian:
> > I'm running Ubuntu Hardy. With all this talk about how great xbmc is,
> > I decided to give it a try. I installed it and couldn't get much
> > working (for instance, I had sound in the interface, but no videos
> > would play back with sound, I couldn't get it to talk to the Myth uPNP
> > server, etc, etc.)
>
> I just installed it too, with mixed results. But then again, it's in beta
> status, and the Linux branch seems a rather recent development.
>
> > so I go back to my myth frontend and now I don't
> > have sound *anywhere*. I uninstalled xbmc and still no sound. I
> > noticed xbmc installed pulseaudio. I uninstalled that. I still have no
> > sound.
>
> Must be a Ubuntu thing. XBMC does not require pulse audio. At least not on
> my
> openSUSE installation, and also not according to their website:
> http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_from_source_code
> and especially
>
> http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/README.linux
>
> > I've been hacking at this for a few hours now and I'm about to
> > reformat my machine just to get my audio back. Any help is appreciated.
>
> I have absolutely no idea about Ubuntu (or any debian & derivatives) , but
> maybe you can force a re-install of all the "sound stuff", particularly
> alsa,
> the sounddriver's firrmware,  and libasound? And I see lots of references
> to
> a file "asoundrc" when people report sound problems here. Just search the
> mailing list archives for more infos.
>
> --
> Gruß
> Andreas
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If I'm not mistaken, PulseAudio is the default in Hardy.  I'm not at my
machine now so I can't check it.  I too am very interested in checking out
XBMC, mostly for the potential to stream Netflix to it.
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