[mythtv-users] Unexpected interaction between Mythfrontend and K3b

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/26/2011 02:52 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 26/10/11 18:37, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>> K3b used with no Notifications active, sound playback continued without
>>>>> interruption. K3b defaults need revising; will add this to KDE bug report.
> <snip>
>
>> What happens if you change MythTV to use PulseAudio directly instead of
>> ALSA?  (And, if that "works"--prevents audio failure during burning, you
>> can either use it like that--and likely get those beeps and blings and
>> ... during playback--or just get rid of PulseAudio completely.)
> Mike:  The system as I have it now seems to work OK so I don't feel a
> strong need to mess with PulseAudio options.  I'll keep an eye on the
> logs and see if it continues to be switched on and off.  I see mild A/V
> sync issues with vlc that may be PA related, too, so I'll maybe try
> disabling it sometime... but not yet!


The MythTV logs will only mention when MythTV enables/disables 
PulseAudio--they won't mention when PulseAudio is automatically 
re-enabled by the server to handle a non-MythTV request.

I just thought it was worth exploring so that you could close the k3b 
bug report if it turns out it's not doing anything and it's actually 
Pulse--and the fact that you've configured ALSA instead of Pulse on your 
MythTV--that's causing the problem.  It should be easy enough to 
test...  Find the audio output device setting, write down its current 
value, change it to the proper one for PulseAudio's default device, then 
test--then, if you want, change it back to the ALSA value you have now.

Mike