[mythtv-users] Honey, I broke the audio...

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Nov 12 05:30:54 UTC 2013


Sorry; Pam grabbed it back after I went home, and got it working...

Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>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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