[mythtv-users] OT: ubuntu 12.04 mythtv sound works but sound for other apps no longer does?

[Igor Cicimov]

On 16/12/2012 11:50 AM, "Steven Adeff" <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On one of my mythtv frontend machines, I'd been able to ssh in and run
> mplayer or the Spotify app to listen to streaming music. A few days
> ago after a dist-upgrade I am no longer able to get sound to work from
> outside MythTV.
>
And you are not the only one. Clean install of 12.04 no problem, upgrade to
12.04 and no sound in the desktop or any other up but mythtv. It is because
mythtv handles the sound devices much better than the other apps which use
the system default one.
It has something to do with the pulseaudio in 12.04. Install pavucontrol
and try to set the default device to spdif from there.
By the way there was already a same thread here so searching for it might
help.

> I'm using SPDIF on this box, and the other applications all think they
> are playing, but no sound comes out, even with aplay or mplayer when I
> specifically define what audio device to use.
>
> Has anyone ever encountered something similar, or have any idea why
> mythfrontend is able to play sound while no other applications seem to
> be able to?
>
> thanks!
>
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> Steve
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