[mythtv-users] Sound with Fedora 12

[Rodd Clarkson]

Just new to this list, but thought I could add something to this topic.

> I had to reinstall on my main frontend and installed Fedora 12 (was 
> running fedora 10).  I got myth installed without any major problems, 
> and figured out how to get the Nvidia drivers install, but I still can 
> not get sound working in Mythfrontend.  I understand it is an issue with 
> Fedora defaulting to pulseaudio, but I can't figure out how to work 
> around this.  Any suggestions?
> 

I use this script to kill pulseaudio after starting mythtv frontend.
For some reason this seems to fix the problem of sound in MythTV.
Greater minds might find it useful to figure out why pulseaudio and
alsa/mythtv don't play so well together.


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#!/bin/sh
# Script to start MythTV and kill pulseaudio

mythfrontend &
sleep 5 
pulseaudio --kill &
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Rodd