[mythtv-users] distributed simultaneous playback

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Saturday, August 29, 2015 12:46:39 AM Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> >
> > >   Presuming the TV in the kitchen has an audio input jack, it might
> just be
> > > simplest to get an audio splitter (passive - probably a few $), and
> when you run
> > > whatever cable to the kitchen, also run an audio cable - probably
> cheapest to
> > > just get some speaker wire and solder on the RCA jack on each end.
> I'll presume
> > > you are using analog audio, so running speaker wire that far probably
> won't be
> > > an issue in terms of quality.
> >
> > A few month ago there was a thread about sending audio to multiple
> > alsa devices by creating pcms. You have to search the archives.
>
> I found a Wiki entry:
>
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Simultaneous_Audio_Output_to_Independent_Devices
>
> but no MythTV thread that ended in an answer. :(
>
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I've got sound going to two different devices simultaneously, and may have
been part of the thread mentioned by Hika. What OS are you using? I am some
what foggy on how this came to be, other than through the sound portion of
settings on Ubuntu 14.04. IIRC it was from a wiki page, I didn't get too
far with other routes.
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