[mythtv] Arts support, sound multiplexing support?

[Chris Elston]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:39 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:35:05 +0900, florin baiduc wrote:
> > I tried running MythTV with Arts support (specially for having Skype on the
> > same machine). Is there any development done towards supporting the sound
> > servers?
> > (if yes, could you please point to the appropriate discussion thread in the
> > users list for setup, etc? if no, I guess this is an interesting development
> > theme and discussion)... :)
> > Thanks...
> 
> Recent versions of the ALSA library can to mixing transparent to the
> application. So all you need to do is settings ALSA:default as output
> and mixer device in the mythfrontend configuration. However, this only
> works if all applications use ALSA. This won't work if an application
> that you run still uses OSS for audio. I don't know if Skype uses ALSA
> or OSS.

My version of Skype 1.3.0.53_API has a dropdown in the options for the
audio system to use, and shows both ALSA and OSS as detected.

For applications which do want to use OSS, you can force them to use
ALSA through AOSS (http://alsa.opensrc.org/Alsa-oss)  There is an aoss
package for FC6 called alsa-oss.<arch>

Then start the app with: 
aoss <app>

Cheers,

Chris.