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

[Igor Cicimov]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Igor Cicimov <icicimov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> your search-fu is obviously better than mine, I couldn't find anything.
>

Not really I just remember that particular thread since I posted on it too.
I found it in my mailbox>

http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-September/339915.html

So the solution was to create ~/.asoundrc file as follows

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "spdif"
}


 If this gives you sound then work your way to set the default device using
'dmix" plugin so you can use the device simultaneously from more than one
app. Don't forget to restart/reload ALSA when changing the .asoundrc file
or reboot.



> this was a clean 12.04 install, but after an update it stopped
> working, so it worked fine for a few months, until an update earlier
> this week.
> I'm not use pulse, I have it disabled. I've been using just ALSA on it's
> own.
> the weird thing is that mplayer, even when specifying the specific
> device looks like it's playing and happy but no sound "comes out", and
> all my mixer volume controls are at "100".
>
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