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

[Sholla]

On 01/08/15 17:38, Mike Perkins wrote:
> 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...
>

Remember reading that pulseaudio may be a requirement for the
flash plugin used in the mythnetvision/mythbrowser plugins. I am not
able to test this because in my case flash plugin is constantly crashing.
But that is a separate topic !

sholla