[mythtv-users] Sound problem with 0.27 on Ubuntu 14.04

[Mike Perkins]

On 24/04/14 16:03, Mike Carron wrote:
>
> On 04/24/2014 04:23 AM, Karl Dietz wrote:
>> On 24.04.2014 07:05, Mike Carron wrote:
>>>     Apr 23 19:39:01 Office mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[10904]: E
>>>     CoreContext audio/audiooutput.cpp:185 (OpenAudio) Audio output
>>>     device is set to a Windows device but Windows support is not
>>>     compiled in!
>>
>> It appears as if you have configured mythfrontend with this hostname but on MS
>> Windows in the past. Please run the audio configuration again. If you intent
>> to dual boot this system you can either use different hostnames or tell mythtv
>> to use a separate configuration.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Karl
> ***
> Unfortunately Setup -> Audio crashes the FE. If I try the Setup Wizard the FE
> freezes as soon as I advance to the Audio section and Ctrl-Alt-F1 is necessary
> to regain any control. I did have an MS Windows machine with the same name
> (Office) and with Mythfrontend configured but it was only connected to an older
> 0.25 BE. Having MythTV on this machine isn't absolutely necessary but sure is
> convenient, I use it primarily to edit shows before transcoding them for the
> Video Library and I can do that from any FE. I haven't done a real build for
> over 25 years so I hope it won't come to that.
>
The next step is to run it from a console with appropriate tracing (-v) enabled 
so that you can pin down what happens and where.

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Mike Perkins