[mythtv-users] ALSA audio conflict w/ Boxee/HuluDesktop

[Tony Bones]

wow nevermind....I just fixed it.  Just create /etc/asound.conf with

pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "hdmi"
}

Now everything works great.  :)
Hope this helps someone else.


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Tony Bones <aabonesml at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running into this problem now as well.  hdmi audio out works from
> within mythtv (both analog and ac3 pass-through) but sound won't work in
> huludesktop when launched from within mythtv or as standalone.  Could you
> explain your solution again?  I had hulu working with spdif output, but i
> recently changed to hdmi output.  I have mythfrontend setup to use ALSA:hdmi
> and have unchecked the spdif output checkboxes, so myth is working fine.
>
> I'm still running myth 0.21, and am on gentoo 2.6.31 and alsa 1.0.20 with
> intel G45 chipset.
>
> Would appreciate any help,
> Tony
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM, j2u4 j2u4 <j2u44u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the end, I got it working with EXPERIMENTALLY_ALLOW_PULSE_AUDIO=1 .
>>
>> -j
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM, j2u4 j2u4 <j2u44u at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, I'll give that a whirl. I discovered last night that my fix for
>>> boxee isn't a very good one anyway -- the main boxee application works, but
>>> all boxee apps don't get sound when launched from within mythtv, so I can't
>>> even watch youtube via boxee with my current setup.
>>>
>>> I'm curious why mythtv won't work when by using my default audio device,
>>> set with gnome's sound control applet, though (Karmic Koala). All other apps
>>> (boxee, hulu, et al) seem to respect those settings.
>>>
>>> -j
>>>
>>> On Wed Feb 3 04:48:28 UTC 2010, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
>>> > I don't use HDMI, but to get sound in huludesktop I had to create an
>>> > .asoundrc in the home directory of the user running mythtv.
>>> >
>>> > I used spdif, and it looks like this:
>>> >
>>> > pcm.!default spdif
>>> >
>>> > Michael
>>>
>>
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