[pulseaudio-discuss] How to debug choppy audio in Totem & Mythtv

[Jeremy Visser]

On 27/01/10 20:18, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> If MythTV is using ALSA:front then it's not using PA. MythTV also has
> code that automatically suspends PA when MythTV runs. Unless Fedora have
> patched MythTV to not do that (as I have in Mandriva) then you wont get
> to use MythTV with pulse.

Which, frankly, is a silly, because it suspends PA in its entirety, even
if the audio device in question is perfectly free to use directly over ALSA.

Case in point: I play music in Rhythmbox via PA via BlueZ to my
Bluetooth headset. My internal sound card is not being used, but when I
fire up MythTV, it obnoxiously cuts off the audio to my headset by
blindly suspending PA, despite the fact that it would cause no conflicts
whatsoever.

There is native PA support in the latest trunk builds of MythTV, but it
is still quite buggy -- for example the audio screws up when you timeshift.

It's an uphill battle to say the least.

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