[mythtv] MythtTV Sound configuration: ALSA support in MythTV/MythPlugins

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 17 March 2011 17:00, Rakesh Shivayya Guttedar <rakesh-sg at hcl.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have built mythTV and mythplugins for Ubuntu 10.10 machine.
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> But when I put alsa settings in mythfrontend, the mythfrontend seg faults
> and crashes with the log message that tells ALSA support is not compiled
> into it. The configuration script of mythtv has the option to disable alsa
> support. I want to know is there any we can enable alsa support in mythTV
> and mythplugins during build.
>

Why don't you use pre-build packages made by people knowing how to
build packages?

If you still want to compile yourself, run the following command that
will install all dependencies:
sudo apt-get build-dep mythtv