[mythtv-users] mythfrontend 0.22 with PulseAudio
Nick Rout
nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 00:55:14 UTC 2009
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Cool Frood <aaranya+mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having PulseAudio woes with MythTV. I'm using Ubuntu Karmic with
> audio through NVidia's HDMI. PulseAudio on Karmic works pretty well
> and I am able to use it without problems with XBMC and other
> applications. The problem is that when I try to EXEC XBMC through
> MythTV, PulseAudio is still suspended so I get no sounds and no video
> on XBMC. Also, XBMC starts using 100% CPU and I have to kill -9 it to
> recover. I searched a bit and I tried the
> EXPERIMENTALLY_ALLOW_PULSE_AUDIO=1 option. XBMC works fine, but
> MythTV starts to lose audio when watching a video.
>
> I also tried setting it up as described here:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound#PulseAudio, but
> then I get no sound with MythTV.
>
> Any ideas how to work around it? Is there some way to unblock
> PulseAudio when I EXEC something from MythTV? I would like to have
> mythfrontend to continue being the launching area for other media
> applications.
Is it possible to set xbmc to NOT use pulse audio?
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