[mythtv-users] Audio continues after close of program

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/01/2014 12:53 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 2/1/2014 10:39 AM, kfoltz4 at juno.com wrote:
>> Running "amixer set CD mute" at the command line will silence the 
>> audio. What I would prefer to do is add that command to the closing 
>> process in MythTV. How is that done? I am running MythTV on Kubuntu 
>> 12.04 if that makes any difference.
>
> That input should always be muted, even when running MythTV.  When you 
> watch TV through MythTV, the TV is recorded to disk, and then played 
> back from disk, so there is about a two second delay from live and 
> what is displayed on your screen. That means if that audio channel is 
> unmuted, you will have a two second delay between the recorded video 
> MythTV is displaying and the unrecorded audio being passed through 
> directly by your sound card.

key point being input, not output

Mike