[mythtv-users] Long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 , mostly OK except audio !!

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Sholla,

Thursday, January 8, 2015, 10:49:34 AM, you wrote:

> On 01/08/15 06:35, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Sholla,
>>
>> Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 2:03:00 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> I am doing a long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 on a fairly new system
>>> with pvr-350 and the set top box.
>> ..
>> What is 'a fairly new system'?

> well,

> the mainboard is  mini-itx  Intel D510MO Atom  (circa 2010)
> kernel 3.13.10 i686
> distribution is built from source using Yocto framework

>>  Does it perchance involve pulseaudio?

> I specifically intended to exclude systemd and pulseaudio. After
> seeing your response I checked..

> root at d510mo:/# find . -name "*pulse*"
> ./home/mythtv/.config/pulse
> ./usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
> ./usr/lib/libpulse.so.0.17.3
> ./usr/lib/pulseaudio
> ./usr/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-5.0.so

> Obviously something is pulling in pulseaudio as a dependency, most
> likely QT4. I need to verify this.

> Many people in the forum had pointed out that mythtv disables
> pulseaudio when it is running.  So I am puzzled (anyway, I do not need
> pulseaudio and will remove it)

> Thanks for pointing out this one..

Myth can work around pulse, but I think it needs pulseaudio to have
some alsa emulation. I don't know much about it, but on my workstation
where I need pulseaudio for skype I see much more alsa devices.

aplay -L gives:

sysdefault:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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