[ATrpms-users] mythtv and pulseaudio

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Dec 22, 2007 9:25 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:11:47PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > Axel Thimm wrote at about 10:07:55 +0200 on Saturday, December 22, 2007:
> >  > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:35:13AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> >  > > Last I remember reading on this list, mythtv was patched for Pulse
> >  > > Audio in the trunk but not in the stable series.
> >  > >
> >  > > Any idea when/if the patches will be backported to the stable
> release
> >  > > and/or when a new stable release  (or partial release) will be
> >  > > available.
> >  > >
> >  > > I try to stay away from bleeding edge because I have enough trouble
> >  > > keeping everything else stable without adding more nose bleeds :)
> >  >
> >  > I'm quite sure the stable rpms are properly working with
> >  > pulseaudio. Did you try them?
> > Hmmmm.... doesn't seem to work for me. This is the situation I have:
> >
> > Case 1:
> > - Start mplayer first. The mplayer stream properly shows up on
> pavucontrol
> >   as a pulseaudio stream
> > - Start mythtv. No sound and no stream shows up on pavucontrol
> >
> > Case 2:
> > - Start mythtv first. Sound but no stream shows up on pavucontrol
> > - Start mplayer. No sound but stream still shows up on pavucontrol.
> >   Get error mess
> > E: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or
> > resource busy
> > - Kill mplayer. Stream still remains on pavucontrol.
> > - Start another mplayer. Still now sound but now a second mplayer
> >   stream shows up on pavucontrol.
> > - Kill mythtv. No sound. And now about half the time pulseaudio
> >   crashes and half the time it will work again.
> >
> > Case 3:
> > - Start mplayer first. The mplayer stream properly shows up on
> pavucontrol
> >   as a pulseaudio stream
> > - Start "padsp mythtv". Sound works under OSS emulation.
> >
> > So for me pulseaudio is definitely not working natively with mythtv.
>
> Well, I applied the patch from
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3598
>
> and also a request to backport to 0.20.x was closed due to the
> packages allegedly working properly:
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4225
>
> OTOH I was the one claiming this to be working and no one indicated
> otherwise in the last month, so it either does indeed work, or so few
> people try mythtv under pulseaudio that they didn't yet notice that
> the claim was not OK.
>
> Could you reopen #4225 and post your finding in there? Maybe the patch
> I backported was too old for the current stable series and I missed
> something.
>

It is working for me. It is necessary to use ALSA:default in myth frontend
(not /dev/dsp) and pulseaudio should be the default (the way it is in F8).



-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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