[mythtv-users] Odd doubling of audio

[Dick Steffens]

On 03/21/2015 05:36 PM, Tony Sauri wrote:
> On 22/03/15 06:30, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> Last night, while I was watching a recorded program with Myth
>> (v0.27.4-41-gf1115fc), about halfway through I started getting the audio
>> twice, the second one about a second or so after the first. At first I
>> thought it might have been something strange with the broadcast. Oddly
>> enough, I was able to understand enough of what was going on to finish
>> the program. Then, just to make sure I was right that it was somehow the
>> fault of the broadcast, I started watching a different program. This
>> time, instead of getting two copies of the audio from the one program I
>> got the audio I expected plus the audio from the next program in the
>> list. At this point I decided that, since we were about to watch an
>> evening of TV, I should try the old fashioned way of fixing things by
>> rebooting. (I know that's not the Linux way, but I was in a bit of a
>> rush, and wouldn't have known what service to restart, so I restarted
>> all of them.) Anyway, after rebooting, all was normal.
>>
>> Any idea what happened there, and what I should have done to fix it?
>>
> My guess is that somehow you had managed to invoke a second instance of
> the front-end.
> I did that once but don't remember how :-)

I suppose that is a possibility, but it's odd that it happened in the 
middle of a show.

> Simplest resolution is to reboot the frontend

I'll give that a try if it ever happens again.

Thanks.


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Regards,

Dick Steffens