[mythtv-users] Squeezesoft prevents audio in .24

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 18 November 2010 04:28, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> These downsides seem pretty big to me.  I prefer to have passthrough
>> and non resampled audio.  I am not trying to play audio from different
>> programs simultaneously.  I just want softsqueeze running idle in the
>> background and to not use the soundcard until it is actually playing
>> music.  It looks like that is not possible based on the way
>> softsqueeze is written.
>
> you may want to check with the squeezy folks, and have some close the
> audio device when they aren't playing anything.

You can also setup mythtv and squeezesoft to both use the same dmix
plugin in alsa.  There should be quite a bit of info out there on
setting up dmix.

>> Yeah, as I explained above, I think this is the issue.  So its not a
>> myth problem but a softsqueeze issue.  I have not upgraded softsqueeze
>> lately, but I will downgrade because I have used all sorts of
>> different versions.  I will say that getting audio out of myth used to
>> sometimes be a crapshoot since I upgraded my system a few months ago
>> (a complete rebuild with only my database and recordings carrying
>> over), so maybe that was the problem before.
>
> I tested that patch, and it wouldn't have helped anyway, it was just a long shot
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