[mythtv-users] SqueezeSlave prevents audio in .24

[Michael PARKER]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of
> Gabe Rubin
> Sent: 18 November 2010 02:29
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] SqueezeSlave prevents audio in .24
> 
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 17 November 2010 23:58, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> >>> Some audio hardware provides hardware mixing and when that isn't
> >>> available dmix software mixing is enabled automatically for analog
> >>> outputs unless the distro has specifically disabled it in favor
> >>> of using the pulseaudio server for audio mixing.
> >>
> >> Don't know how they would specifically disable it ; but in all my
> >> testing, if the audio device is in use, you often can't open it in
> >> another application : as you said this depends on the audio card.
> >>
> >> But on my PC here, if I play something using mplayer, myth won't be
> >> able to access the audio device and vice-versa.
> >>
> >> this is using the "front" device which is analog
> >
> > I would expect this behavior when playing something with mplayer (and
> > indeed, I would also expect this behavior when softsqueeze is playing
> > something).  I would not expect this behavior when mplayer is simply
> > running without playing a media file, which is the issue I am having
> > with softsqueeze.  It prevents myth from accessing the output when it
> > is just running even if it is not playing any audio.
> >
> > But it seems like that is a softsqueeze issue and not a myth issue.
> > And it seems like my options are to:
> > 1) harass the softsqueeze people to fix that;
> > 2) do my workaround of starting and stopping softsqueeze via remote
> > buttons and understand that until I stop softsqueeze, myth won't play
> > audio;
> > 3) switch to pulse; or
> > 4) figure out the dmix option that Greg suggested.
> >
> > I will choose 2 for now and see about looking into 1.  I will also try
> > earlier versions of softsqueeze because I am pretty sure I had both
> > softsqueeze and myth running at the same time with no issues 100% of
> > the time, so maybe an earlier version only opened the device when it
> > played audio and closed the device when it was not playing audio.
> >
> 
> This is a little embarassing, but it turns out that it is actually
> SqueezeSlave, not softsqueeze that I am using.  Changed the subject
> title.
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I see exactly the same issue in 0.23-fixes with SqueezeSlave (x86_64, Fedora 12) and would greatly appreciate suggestions for a solution.

Cheers,

Mike