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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mike,

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 5:28:55 PM, you wrote:

> 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.

Then if that doesn't create other problems, rename the machines
hostname or change the <LocalHostName> tag in config.xml



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