Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS = No sound in MythTV + mplayer

[Steve Malenfant]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com>wrote:

> Something strange happened... I wanted the 0.24 MythTV release which I used
> the Mythubuntu repo. When I instructed the upgrade, it went through a
> "partial upgrade". That's where it got scary.
>
> Anyway, I didn't know. My Ubuntu got upgraded to 10.04.2 LTS (that isn't
> released right?) and everything seemed to work.
>
> ALSA seems to be broken badly. When the computer starts, I hear the sounds.
> But as soon as I want to use MythTV Frontend (got video, no audio) or
> mplayer (getting nothing). All Gnome application (well, sounds and music
> player) works and have audio.
>
> Any ideas?
>

I seem to have found a way to make it work. ALSA:Default doesn't work
anymore for me in both mplayer and MythTV. I have to do a scan and choose
the proper device that gets populated. For mplayer, I have to provide "-ao
alsa" and it I do "-ao alsa:default" then my video doesn't even show up.

I'll have to look into getting the ALSA:default working again. Kind of a
pain in the bottom when you need to specify the audio device all the time.
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