I have experienced the same results with MythMusic (described in ticket 8509) since upgrading to trunk with the hdaudio merge. Prior to the merge I was using ALSA:plughw,1,0 as my main audio device and "default" in MythMusic setup for the audio device.<br>
<br>After upgrading to 24896, I switched the main audio device from ALSA:plughw,1,0 to ALSA:iec958:CARD=External,DEV=0. If I leave the music audio device at default, I get the choppy,stuttering output described in ticket 8509. When I change the music device to /dev/dsp1 the music plays normally.<br>
<br>If I leave the music device at default and check the PCM Analog box in the general MythTV audio configuration screen, the frontend segfaults (I have a coredump).<br><br>The output from the frontend is:<br><br>2010-05-29 14:14:44.166 AO: Opening audio device 'iec958:CARD=External,DEV=0' ch<br>
2(2) sr 44100 sf signed 16 bit reenc 0<br>2010-05-29 14:14:44.167 Opening ALSA audio device 'iec958:CARD=External,DEV=0'.<br>2010-05-29 14:14:44.895 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1<br>2010-05-29 14:15:01.212 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1<br>
2010-05-29 14:15:03.522 Loading menu theme from /usr/local/share/mythtv/music_se<br>ttings.xml<br><br>Music stutters.<br><br><br>2010-05-29 14:15:48.166 XMLParse: LoadTheme using '/usr/local/share/mythtv/theme<br>s/blue-abstract-wide_old/music-ui.xml'<br>
2010-05-29 14:15:48.514 XMLParse, Warning: Unknown: area in repeated image<br>2010-05-29 14:15:48.515 XMLParse, Warning: Unknown: area in repeated image<br>2010-05-29 14:15:49.029 AO: Opening audio device '/dev/dsp1' ch 2(2) sr 44100 sf<br>
signed 16 bit reenc 0<br><br>Music plays fine.<br><br>version info:<br>ken@mythtv:~$ mythfrontend --version<br>Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.<br>MythTV Version : 24896<br>MythTV Branch : trunk<br>
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