[mythtv-users] Audio issues - New Install

[Ashu Desai]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
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>>>>> Maybe you need to disable Pulse Audio... I don't use it, but I think
>>>>> it might override alsa.
>>>>>
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>>>> This can be tricky to do in Fedora and I'm sure it's similar in
>>>> CentOS.  I've found that:
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>>>> chmod -x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
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>> I did this and this is what I got after a reboot
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>> [mythtv at mythfe7 ~]$ alsamixer
>> ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
>> Connection refused
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>> cannot open mixer: Connection refused
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>> I think it's the permissions?
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>> [mythtv at mythfe7 ~]$ ls -ahl /usr/bin/alsamixer
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 66K Nov  7  2016 /usr/bin/alsamixer
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>> Should I be changing permissions?
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> Sorry about that.  It worked for me.  If you can't get alsamixer to open,
> then I'd switch it back and reboot.
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> chmod +x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
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> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_sound_problems has some
> suggestions, specifically:
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> using dnf or yum (not both -- pick the one you use)
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> dnf|yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
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> I wasn't able to fully disable pulseaudio until changing permissions as I
> told you.
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That changed my default to HD NVidia - however it gives this static sound
like before when playing certain files or any music (mp3)
Basically FE doesn't like those soundtracks.I looked at them

For example - my movie U-571 with DTS - static noise. Fast & Furious - DTS
- plays just fine.
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