[mythtv-users] Necessary to remove pulseaudio?

[steve]

I have been trying to resolve stuttering issues with sound from hd 
recordings (via HDPVR).  I recalled reading that PulseAudio (PA) has 
been known to cause problems with MythTV, so I uninstalled it.  My sound 
went away completely.  So I reinstalled it and the sound came back (plus 
stuttering).

Consulting a couple of wiki pages about this, I find contradictory 
statements.  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound says 
PA is "not supported by MythTV" and "For MythTV installations it is 
advisable to turn off any sound servers that sit on top of ALSA such as 
Pulse Audio or the KDE or Gnome sound servers."

OTOH http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora#Sound_setup 
says "MythTV does work with Pulseaudio, however, if you wish to remove 
it, you can run the following command to revert to using ALSA only.  yum 
remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio."  When I run that command, yum says it's 
available but not installed.

So my questions are:

(1) Can MythTV coexist with PA or not?  My video playback is configured 
to use ALSA:default, but it must be using PA in some way since 
uninstalling it broke the sound.

(2) Could PA be the source of audio stuttering on playback?  Latest 
description of symptoms is here *http://tinyurl.com/76s2nqs* (shortened 
Gossamer threads url)

(3) If PA can't coexist with MythTV, what is the proper procedure for 
getting rid of it?  Per the digital sound wiki, do I also have to 
disable the KDE sound server, and if so how is that done?

Cheers...Steve

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