[mythtv-users] .23 Sound Issues............Please God shoot me now!!

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, Jim Hendry <hendryjh at gmail.com>
>> As far as I can tell the only way to control optical volume is with pulseaudio (or esd/arts). ALSA does not seem to have a mechanism for controlling master/pcm volume for S/PDIF.
>>
> Course there is.
>
> As mentioned in this thread and many times before. If using spdif  or
> digital audio, you can make myth control the volume by setting the
> mixer device to "software".
>
> Why use pulse that will completely mess the quality of the output?
>
> Pulse only ever make sense on a PC if you are using this PC for
> running other application than mythtv , at the same time as mythtv and
> that also requires audio output.
> And maybe when you want to output audio on another PC.
>
> In all other cases, ALSA is the best solution for mythtv and I can't
> see what functionality pulse would provide that myth can't already do.

I don't have any specific disagreements, but the only exception, if it
can be called that, for me would be if Myth would un-suspend PA when
an EXEC is called so things that use pulseaudio like Hulu Desktop
would work properly without having to have pulseaudio enabled all the
time via environment variable.

Richard