[mythtv-users] Honey, I broke the audio...
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Tue Nov 12 02:15:27 UTC 2013
Hmm, it's been a day with no replies, so maybe I should address this
to the estate of the late Jay Ashworth...
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> Some time last week, something went bump in the night, and suddenly, Myth
> 0.26, which is running on SuSE 12.1 over Pulse over ALSA suddenly had no
> volume control. No joke: woke the sister up in the middle of the night,
> blaring at full volume on the next entry of a snooze playlist, and while
> the volume buttons would adjust the thermometer, the volume stayed at Max.
You're using analog audio output?
> So anyway, I was working on it tonight, and tried, as a first step,
> uninstalling Pulse.
>
> That didn't do much (including, as it turned out, stopping the running
> PA server), and I went back in and looked at Yast again, to find that it
> hadn't uninstalled the libraries.
>
> So I uninstalled the 4 libraries.
>
> And it promptly uninstalled about 96 things before I aborted it.
Yeah. You pretty much have to have the pulse audio libraries
installed today. There's no easy way around that, even if you don't
intend to install PA itself.
> Could someone give me a pointer to what the preferred underlying
> Linux audio setup is for Myth these days?
I'm not really sure what's considered the best these days, but I do
try my best to avoid pulse audio. It doesn't seem to have quite the
latency issues that it once did, but it's just one more layer of
complexity that isn't really needed.
Are you having problems with just the MythTV Frontend audio output, or
sound output in general? If you're having general trouble, MythTV is
probably not the best application to debug it. Start with removing
the pulse audio daemon, but not the libraries, then just try to get
aplay to work correctly. After that, move on to MythTV.
Good luck,
Eric
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