[mythtv-users] Long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 , mostly OK except audio !!

[Mike Perkins]

On 08/01/15 11:14, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 08/01/15 09:49, Sholla wrote:
>> On 01/08/15 06:35, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Hoi Sholla,
>>>
>>> Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 2:03:00 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am doing a long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 on a fairly new system
>>>> with pvr-350 and the set top box.
>>> ..
>>> What is 'a fairly new system'?
>>
>> well,
>>
>> the mainboard is  mini-itx  Intel D510MO Atom  (circa 2010)
>> kernel 3.13.10 i686
>> distribution is built from source using Yocto framework
>>
>>>   Does it perchance involve pulseaudio?
>>
>> I specifically intended to exclude systemd and pulseaudio. After
>> seeing your response I checked..
>>
>> root at d510mo:/# find . -name "*pulse*"
>> ./home/mythtv/.config/pulse
>> ./usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
>> ./usr/lib/libpulse.so.0.17.3
>> ./usr/lib/pulseaudio
>> ./usr/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-5.0.so
>>
>> Obviously something is pulling in pulseaudio as a dependency, most
>> likely QT4. I need to verify this.
>>
>> Many people in the forum had pointed out that mythtv disables
>> pulseaudio when it is running.  So I am puzzled (anyway, I do not need
>> pulseaudio and will remove it)
>>
> Actually, with more modern hardware and OS versions pulseaudio isn't so evil.
>
> One test machine I built would not work unless I installed pulse, and then
> everything magically worked without any configuration from me.
>
> Obviously, it depends on the specific hardware / software combination you have.
>
Gah. Obviously I meant "mythfrontend" would not work...

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Mike Perkins