[mythtv-users] mythtv audio stuttering on 720p material after upgrade to Fedora 9

[Allen Edwards]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Don Lewis <dl-mythtv at catspoiler.org> wrote:
> On 23 Sep, Joe Henley wrote:
>> Hmmm.  How I got my system to (finally) settle down and play recordings
>> cleanly was:
>>
>> Remove .asoundrc from /root , /home, and /etc, and anywhere else it resides
>>
>> Use alsamixer to unmute all the iec958 items
>>
>> Set MythTV settings to:
>> Audio output device = ALSA: spdif
>> Passthru output device = Default
>> Max audio channels = stereo (The 5.1 setting is currently broken. Use
>> "stereo" and you'll still get 5.1 sound out of the system.)
>> Upmix = passive
>> Enable AC3 to SPDIF passthru = check
>> Enable DTS to SPDIF passthru = check
>> Enable internal volume controls = check
>> Mixer device = default
>> Mixer controls = Master
>
> I've been using pretty much the same settings, except I had the
> passthrough device set to spdif and the internal volume control
> disabled.  I didn't detect any difference in my sound problems when I
> changed my settings to match yours.

Also, remove the asound file and remove pulse audio, which is
apparently difficult to do.
People have reported that this is important on Fedoria.
Allen