[mythtv-users] Necessary to remove pulseaudio?

Justin justin+lists.mythtv-users at dunnluck.com
Thu Jan 5 01:02:22 UTC 2012


On 2012.01.02 5:45 PM, steve wrote:
> I have been trying to resolve stuttering issues with sound from hd 
> recordings (via HDPVR).  I recalled reading that PulseAudio (PA) has 
> been known to cause problems with MythTV, so I uninstalled it.  My 
> sound went away completely.  So I reinstalled it and the sound came 
> back (plus stuttering).
>
> Consulting a couple of wiki pages about this, I find contradictory 
> statements. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound says 
> PA is "not supported by MythTV" and "For MythTV installations it is 
> advisable to turn off any sound servers that sit on top of ALSA such 
> as Pulse Audio or the KDE or Gnome sound servers."
>
> OTOH 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora#Sound_setup 
> says "MythTV does work with Pulseaudio, however, if you wish to remove 
> it, you can run the following command to revert to using ALSA only.  
> yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio."  When I run that command, yum 
> says it's available but not installed.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> (1) Can MythTV coexist with PA or not?  My video playback is 
> configured to use ALSA:default, but it must be using PA in some way 
> since uninstalling it broke the sound.
>
> (2) Could PA be the source of audio stuttering on playback?  Latest 
> description of symptoms is here *http://tinyurl.com/76s2nqs* 
> (shortened Gossamer threads url)
>
> (3) If PA can't coexist with MythTV, what is the proper procedure for 
> getting rid of it?  Per the digital sound wiki, do I also have to 
> disable the KDE sound server, and if so how is that done?
>
> Cheers...Steve
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
I read somewhere that you need to change the pulseaudio sample rate 
setting for it to work with mythtv correctly.
I added "default-sample-rate = 48000" to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and it 
has been working for me.
Justin
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20120104/09873978/attachment.html 


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list