[02:24] <nemo_nihil> what is the best way to have mythtv play music from an external hard drive?
[04:40] <Shred00> the rsyslog.d/40-mythtv-rsyslog.conf doesn't actually seem to be causing rsyslog to even open the mythbackend log on the master builds
[05:13] <Shred00> hrm.  the file ownership settings in /etc/rsyslog.d/40-mythtv-rsyslog.conf don't seem to be working.  the files are being created with user.group syslog.syslog.
[05:29] <Shred00> filed bug LP #904099 about this
[21:20] <skd5aner> hey folks - quick question... I run standard ubuntu (server) and compile and install mythtv from source...
[21:20] <skd5aner> I just upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, and now I can't leverage "service mythtbackend stop" to kill the backend...
[21:21] <skd5aner> any ideas?
[21:21] <skd5aner> /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop doesn't work either...
[21:21] <skd5aner> is this an upstart thing that's causing the issue?
[21:25] <skd5aner> and, if I do a killall and kill it off, I can't start it backup using "start" with either command either
[21:25] <skd5aner> although it starts fine at boot :S
[21:27] <skd5aner> nm...
[21:27] <skd5aner> I think I found the (stupid) issue on my side
[21:32] <dekarl> skd5aner: I have that too sometimes. on 11.04 though. didn't dig into it further
[21:36] <marsilainen> hi all, I'm running mythbuntu 11.04; I have a java applet which has some video that I'd like to display onto my tv; the builtin browser doesn't support java so instead I quit out of the frontend back to xfce and launched firefox
[21:36] <marsilainen> the java applet runs fine in that and the video appears but I get no audio (through hdmi)
[21:37] <marsilainen> when in the desktop what audio does mythbuntu use? I don't see pulseaudio there which is the normal ubuntu way - is that not used in mythbuntu?
[21:37] <marsilainen> also, any other ideas on how I can make this work - either from inside mythtv frontend or just from the desktop?
[21:42] <dekarl> marsilainen: pulseaudio is supposedly not able to passthrough the audio bitstreams so its usually avoided (only hearsay for me)
[21:42] <marsilainen> dekarl: sure
[21:42] <marsilainen> dekarl: so does mythtv use alsa directly?
[21:42] <dekarl> aye
[21:43] <marsilainen> maybe my question maybe an xfce one
[21:43] <dekarl> the questions are quite generic, might be best to ask over in #mythtv-users how they add menu items for external applications that use audio, IR, too
[21:43] <marsilainen> sure
[21:44] <marsilainen> I thought that if I launched firefox from xfce direct then the audio would just work
[21:44] <marsilainen> but I remember having to set mythtv to use the right audio device to get it to come through hdmi, so I'm guessing I'd have to do something similar for xfce
[21:44] <dekarl> hmm, should work as the frontend might be restarting the pulse stuff, but that's not my area of expertise