<html><head></head><body>Sorry; Pam grabbed it back after I went home, and got it working...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Eric Sharkey <eric@lisaneric.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hmm, it's been a day with no replies, so maybe I should address this<br />to the estate of the late Jay Ashworth...<br /><br /><br />On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Some time last week, something went bump in the night, and suddenly, Myth<br />0.26, which is running on SuSE 12.1 over Pulse over ALSA suddenly had no<br />volume control. No joke: woke the sister up in the middle of the night,<br />blaring at full volume on the next entry of a snooze playlist, and while<br />the volume buttons would adjust the thermometer, the volume stayed at Max.</blockquote><br />You're using analog audio output?<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">So anyway, I was working on it tonight, and tried, as a first step,<
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/>uninstalling Pulse.<br /><br />That didn't do much (including, as it turned out, stopping the running<br />PA server), and I went back in and looked at Yast again, to find that it<br />hadn't uninstalled the libraries.<br /><br />So I uninstalled the 4 libraries.<br /><br />And it promptly uninstalled about 96 things before I aborted it.</blockquote><br />Yeah. You pretty much have to have the pulse audio libraries<br />installed today. There's no easy way around that, even if you don't<br />intend to install PA itself.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Could someone give me a pointer to what the preferred underlying<br />Linux audio setup is for Myth these days?</blockquote><br />I'm not really sure what's considered the best these days, but I do<br />try my best to avoid pulse audio. It doesn't seem to have quite the<br />latency issues that it once did, but it's just o
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layer of<br />complexity that isn't really needed.<br /><br />Are you having problems with just the MythTV Frontend audio output, or<br />sound output in general? If you're having general trouble, MythTV is<br />probably not the best application to debug it. Start with removing<br />the pulse audio daemon, but not the libraries, then just try to get<br />aplay to work correctly. After that, move on to MythTV.<br /><br />Good luck,<br /><br />Eric<br /><hr /><br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br /><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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