[mythtv-users] Squeezesoft prevents audio in .24

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 18 November 2010 04:28, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> These downsides seem pretty big to me.  I prefer to have passthrough
> and non resampled audio.  I am not trying to play audio from different
> programs simultaneously.  I just want softsqueeze running idle in the
> background and to not use the soundcard until it is actually playing
> music.  It looks like that is not possible based on the way
> softsqueeze is written.

you may want to check with the squeezy folks, and have some close the
audio device when they aren't playing anything.

> Yeah, as I explained above, I think this is the issue.  So its not a
> myth problem but a softsqueeze issue.  I have not upgraded softsqueeze
> lately, but I will downgrade because I have used all sorts of
> different versions.  I will say that getting audio out of myth used to
> sometimes be a crapshoot since I upgraded my system a few months ago
> (a complete rebuild with only my database and recordings carrying
> over), so maybe that was the problem before.

I tested that patch, and it wouldn't have helped anyway, it was just a long shot