[mythtv-users] Audio not working... What should I check?

[Leif Pihl]

On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Zig wrote:

> On 11/8/2013 3:03 PM, Leif Pihl wrote:
>> On Nov 8, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>> 
>> At a command prompt:
>> 
>> ps -A | grep pulseaudio
>> 
>> 
>> Is the you typed above, between the "-A" and the "grep" the pipe symbol?
>> (i.e.: shift-"\" on most US keyboards.)
>> 
>> 
>> I typed it with the "pipe" symbol, and here is the result:
>> 
>> "2128 ?      00:00:00  pulseaudio"
>> 
>> note that the "pulseaudio" is in red.
>> 
>> What does this mean?
>> 
>>> Yes that is a pipe... it allows you to pass the output of one command
>>> to another command.  Here you piped the output of the "ps" (process
>>> status) command to grep (GNU Regular Expression Parser , or something
>>> like that) that allows you to only see the lines of output your
>>> interested in.  You could have just used the "ps" command and found
>>> the line you wanted manually... but that's tedious.
>>> 
>>> The output is telling you that Pulse Audio is running with PID
>>> (process ID) 2128, is not currently active on any CPU's (the ?), and
>>> has used 0 seconds of CPU time.  <at least thats the way I interpet
>>> the output of PS... I may be a little off.
>> 
>> ***  OK, so what do I do next to solve the no-audio problem? 
>> 
>> (BTW, _HOW_ did this get installed this time, when it wasn't last time?) 
>> 
> Did you install from an Ubuntu iso and then add mythtv?  Or did you install from a Mythbuntu iso?


I installed MythBuntu's next-to-most-recent version of the iso/dvd then did a upgrade to version 0.27 and various linux upgrades.
Note that I _DID_ also add the "unzip" program, if that makes any difference. 

LP


> I installed from a Mythbuntu iso and I don't have pulseaudio listed in the ps -A. 
> 
> Possibly Pulseaudio comes stock with Ubuntu but not Mythbuntu??  Or possibly you installed some other audio app and pulseaudio tagged along for the ride?
> Ziggy
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