[mythtv-users] Necessary to remove pulseaudio?

[steve]

On 1/2/2012 7:18 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 06:45 PM, steve wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> I've been using:
> yum remove pulseaudio  \
>           pavucontrol pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf \
>           gstreamer-plugins-pulse pulseaudio-core-libs \
>           pulseaudio-libs-devel pulseaudio-module-zeroconf \
>          pulseaudio-gdm-hooks pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
>
> This leaves pulse-audio-libs, which I think is plugged in deeply into
> the sound processing structure.
>
> Make sure that you have all of the mixer settings set full 'ON' when you
> test audio. It is really annoying to finally find out that the sound was
> just turned down. Been there. No T-shirt. I use alsamixer-gui and then
> aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav to test.
>
> Geoff

Thanks, but according to previous post by Raymond, MythTV frontend 
disables Pulse.  So is this necessary?