On 3/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Elston</b> <<a href="mailto:celston@katalix.com">celston@katalix.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:39 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:<br>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:35:05 +0900, florin baiduc wrote:<br>> > I tried running MythTV with Arts support (specially for having Skype on the<br>> > same machine). Is there any development done towards supporting the sound
<br>> > servers?<br>> > (if yes, could you please point to the appropriate discussion thread in the<br>> > users list for setup, etc? if no, I guess this is an interesting development<br>> > theme and discussion)... :)
<br>> > Thanks...<br>><br>> Recent versions of the ALSA library can to mixing transparent to the<br>> application. So all you need to do is settings ALSA:default as output<br>> and mixer device in the mythfrontend configuration. However, this only
<br>> works if all applications use ALSA. This won't work if an application<br>> that you run still uses OSS for audio. I don't know if Skype uses ALSA<br>> or OSS.<br><br>My version of Skype 1.3.0.53_API
has a dropdown in the options for the<br>audio system to use, and shows both ALSA and OSS as detected.<br><br>For applications which do want to use OSS, you can force them to use<br>ALSA through AOSS (<a href="http://alsa.opensrc.org/Alsa-oss">
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Alsa-oss</a>) There is an aoss<br>package for FC6 called alsa-oss.<arch><br><br>Then start the app with:<br>aoss <app><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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</blockquote></div><br><br>Hey - thanks - I'll have a look and let you know the results.