[mythtv-users] .22 and pulseaudio

[Nicolas Will]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 01:32 +0100, Nicolas Will wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Ok, I'm now running MythTV .22 everywhere, on Ubuntu 9.10.
> 
> On my laptop, a .22 frontend, but not dedicated, I now have an issue.
> Whenever I have the frontend runnin, all sound events from the rest of
> my environment are not emitted to my speakers. Instead they are queued
> until I exit MythTV, when I get a very nice compilation!
> 
> I did not have this problem with .21/9.04 and earlier, where everybody
> coexisted and MythTV did not take over all the sound for itself.
> 
> Any pointers?

OK,

got a reply off list (thanks!)

I'm using

export EXPERIMENTALLY_ALLOW_PULSE_AUDIO=1

in my .profile file.

So far no ill effect that I can hear, and in any case, this is not for
the main living room system.

Nico