In the end, I got it working with EXPERIMENTALLY_ALLOW_PULSE_AUDIO=1 . <div><br></div><div>-j<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM, j2u4 j2u4 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j2u44u@gmail.com">j2u44u@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Thanks, I'll give that a whirl. I discovered last night that my fix for boxee isn't a very good one anyway -- the main boxee application works, but all boxee apps don't get sound when launched from within mythtv, so I can't even watch youtube via boxee with my current setup.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm curious why mythtv won't work when by using my default audio device, set with gnome's sound control applet, though (Karmic Koala). All other apps (boxee, hulu, et al) seem to respect those settings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-j</div><div><br></div>On Wed Feb 3 04:48:28 UTC 2010, mythtv at <a href="http://blandford.net" target="_blank">blandford.net</a> wrote:<div>> I don't use HDMI, but to get sound in huludesktop I had to create an </div>
<div>> .asoundrc in the home directory of the user running mythtv.</div><div>> </div><div>> I used spdif, and it looks like this:</div><div>> </div><div>> pcm.!default spdif</div><div>> </div><div>> Michael</div>
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