[mythtv-users] 0.25 Major AV sync problems

[John Pilkington]

On 19/06/12 20:47, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:12 PM, John Pilkington<J.Pilk at tesco.net>  wrote:
> ....
>> In Fedora I don't use sudo, but the reports stop if I do it as su.
>> It doesn't survive a reboot.  Can I do that?
>
> One should try to never run the frontend as the root user
> (and once one does, some files may get modified in
> such a way that fixups will need to be manually taken
> to correct ownership/permissions before being able
> to run as the mythtv user; if you decide on running as
> root, always run as root).
>
> The *usual* suggestion is to place your mythtv frontend
> user in the audio/video groups, or to write udev rules to allow
> the frontend user the appropriate permissions.  One can
> also create /etc/rc.local and include commands such
> as setting buffers, permissions, etc.
>
> Gary

Thanks, Gary.  I didn't mean I was running myth as root, just issuing 
that command from a konsole as root with mythfrontend already running:

su
<give password>
echo 128 | tee /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/prealloc
exit

and my question was, I hope, can I do that permanently?

John