[mythtv] Arts support, sound multiplexing support?

florin baiduc florinbaiduc at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 15:15:35 UTC 2007


On 3/16/07, Chris Elston <celston at katalix.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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Hey - thanks - I'll have a look and let you know the results.
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