[mythtv-users] multiple selectable audio device configurations

[Raymond Wagner]

> On Oct 25, 2014, at 13:46, "Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> 
> I normally have my FE configured to route sound out of the
> HDMI-connected sound device, out to my TV.
> 
> I had occasion the other night to need to plug headphones in.  No plug
> in the TV for that.  So I plugged them into the FE's stereo out and
> reconfigured the FE to route sound there instead.
> 
> It got me to thinking that it would be useful to be able to configure
> multiple sound devices and give them names and them make them selectable
> under the Audio menu when playing back.

While not the cleanest or most seamless solution, you could restart the frontend under a different config profile, defined by the "localhostname" parameter in your config.xml, or force load a file containing all the audio settings that need to be overridden.  The latter may cause strangeness if you subsequent change settings through the settings menus.