[mythtv-users] backend with no sound hardware (0.27)

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Fri Jan 3 04:04:51 UTC 2014


I'm about to start setting up an 0.27 backend on a rackmount server with
no sound hardware. I'm currently running an ancient install of 0.20, and
I vaguely recall when I set that up there was a recommendation *not* to
disable alsa, even on a headless backend that would never use it. I
don't recall the exact details, but I wanted to see if there were any
similar issues with the latest version. Will anything break on a backend
configured with '--disable-audio-oss --disable-audio-alsa
--disable-audio-jack --disable-audio-pulseoutput' (ie, no sound support at
all)? Or should I go ahead and just install the alsa deps and include alsa
support even though it will never be used, in case something somewhere
assumes it will always have some sound implementation available?

Thanks...


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