[mythtv-users] 10.04 volume issue

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 14:56:47 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Josh
>> Well all I can do is commiserate, since upgrading to 10.04 I have had a
>> never-ending string of audio difficulties.
>> I'm not given to harshness but IMO that blight that is pulseaudio needs to
>> be ripped out of your system by the roots.
>> I've spent most of my time rebooting my Myth 0.23 box (usually 3 reboots
>> is necessary) to re-gain
>> lost audio after my FE/BE crashes to the desktop with subsequent total
>> loss of audio and I'm convinced that it's solely due to Ubuntu's
>> incorporation of a sound server that has basically (again, IMO) ruined what
>> has been a very solid and proven esound architecture.
>> The internal player crashes consistently with WMV3 files, external mplayer
>> is better but not by much.
>> Mythtv I'm sure is more finely tuned to system resources than some other
>> applications and as such with pulseaudio enabled I've been pretty much
>> relegated to XBMC and SageTV (which runs surprisingly well with zero crashes
>> unless the audio has been previously brought down by a myth-pulseadio
>> crash). The logs are full of pulseadio sink errors.
>> I haven't experienced so much frustration with Linux since the 21st floppy
>> of a 23 floppy Slackware distribution invariably being defective 25 years
>> ago!
>> Hopefully you'll get better mileage but I've had it with pulseaudio.
>>
>>
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>
>
> It seems that with every release of myth and ubuntu, I find more things that
> don't work.  The most stable setup I ever had was .21 running on ubuntu 8.10
> (with the same hardware I'm running now).  I'm pretty sure I rebooted the
> machine once between installation and upgrading to .22 (besides for a power
> outage or two).  Those were the days...

Nothing against Ubuntu, I love it as a desktop, but I dumped it in my
Myth environment years ago (due to many issues that I could never
resolve) for Fedora and I have not regretted it.

Tom


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