[mythtv-users] HDMI keep alive, maybe via sending silent audio?

[John Veness]

On 16/05/2016 14:25, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>       I'd still rather find a software fix. A loop like "while [
>> true ] ;     do aplay -q silent.wav ; done" is something I could
>> try. If it     works, I would make the wav file a few seconds long,
>> and add a     "sleep 120" or similar in there, so that it's not
>> using too much     CPU. What I don't know is whether this will
>> nicely mix with Myth's     output.
>>    
>>       John
> You could add in an api call to check if anything is already played on
> the frontend.
Thanks Hika. Can anyone give me a simple example on how to do that? 
Would it return True that something was currently playing, if in fact 
playback was paused? If so, that would be a problem.

John

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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T

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