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

[Steven Adeff]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Igor Cicimov <icicimov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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".

Well, I figured it out, the device # no longer was accepted, but if I
give it the PCM name it works fine. Odd change in behavior, but at
least it works now!


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Steve
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