[mythtv-users] Odd doubling of audio

[Tony Sauri]

On 22/03/15 06:30, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Last night, while I was watching a recorded program with Myth
> (v0.27.4-41-gf1115fc), about halfway through I started getting the audio
> twice, the second one about a second or so after the first. At first I
> thought it might have been something strange with the broadcast. Oddly
> enough, I was able to understand enough of what was going on to finish
> the program. Then, just to make sure I was right that it was somehow the
> fault of the broadcast, I started watching a different program. This
> time, instead of getting two copies of the audio from the one program I
> got the audio I expected plus the audio from the next program in the
> list. At this point I decided that, since we were about to watch an
> evening of TV, I should try the old fashioned way of fixing things by
> rebooting. (I know that's not the Linux way, but I was in a bit of a
> rush, and wouldn't have known what service to restart, so I restarted
> all of them.) Anyway, after rebooting, all was normal.
> 
> Any idea what happened there, and what I should have done to fix it?
> 
My guess is that somehow you had managed to invoke a second instance of
the front-end.
I did that once but don't remember how :-)

Simplest resolution is to reboot the frontend

Tony