[mythtv-users] Too many encoders showing up / upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 9.04

[greg]

Jim Morton wrote:
> Ben Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>> On my myth box alough sound in mythfrontend is OK (alough I had to use
>>>> a USB soundcard) I cant get it working when playing AVIs.  Ive tried
>>>> ALSA (and used alsamixer) and OSS (/dev/dsp1) with the USB soundcard.
>>>>  Again this only works in myth,  outside myth I can get intermitent
>>>> sound with the USB soundcard using alsa and OSS bit it is does not
>>>> work for long if at lall.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> I could not get my sound to work at all when I upgraded from 9.04 to 
>>> 9.10
>>> until I removed pulseaudio.
>>>     
>>
>> Thanks for this, how do you recomend I remove pulseaudio and still
>> have sound working.  I have done some googeling and have found various
>> advise but your insignt would be mutch appreciated.
>>
>>   
> Well, I'm not saying whether this is the correct fix or not. All I can 
> say is
> that it worked here for me. I messed around for a couple of days with 
> my wife
> and kids tapping their feet waiting for their Myth experience to 
> return. I
> Googled and read a ton of stuff and got the impression that it is 
> mainly the
> Ubuntu - Myth - Pulse combination that doesn't work. So I removed it 
> using
> the Synaptic Package manager. I figured it would be simple to 
> reinstall the
> same way in case anything went wrong. After that I had sound.
>
http://linsux.org/blog/grubby/2009/09/06/howto-remove-pulseaudio-install-esound/

This is the site I used to uninstall Pulseaudio... One thing that 
happened to me was the sound was muted..I had to reinstall 
Pulseaudio,unmute and kill all sound events...Then followed the guide 
and it worked fine for me....Usual disclaimers apply...