[mythtv-users] Simultaneous analogue (analog) and S/PDIF output

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 14 January 2011 16:11, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure when it will be generally available but there is a lot of
> work going into making PA handle passthrough audio streams properly.
> Of course Myth disables (suspends) PA unless you set an environment
> variable to allow it but that may change as PA gets more stable.

This is not at all how myth suspends PA.
Myth suspends PA if you've configured it to use something else than
pulseaudio (e.g. alsa, oss, jack etc..)

If you have configured myth to use ALSA:pulse, or pulseaudio, then
pulse will not be suspended.