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<streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - thrak76 - 2012-11-20
Hi folks,
I'm using the nightly from 11-18-12 (but posted on 11-19) on Windows7 x64.
It seems that the <streamsilence> tag for AudioEngine is not releasing the audio any longer. I first noticed this while trying to launch WMC with Advanced Launcher, and then tested it with a few other programs, and was not able to get the audio for any of these programs.
I've got the tag set for:
<streamsilence>0</streamsilence>
to allow for the Eden style release of audio.
Here's a log where I launch WMC with Adv. Launcher, return to XBMC, and then shutdown...
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=15053
Can anyone else reproduce this? It doesn't seem to be an error from Adv. Launcher, because I can't get audio from anything at all while XBMC is running. I forgot to try this with Frodo Beta1, but this behavior was not occurring before Beta1.
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - Montellese - 2012-11-20
AFAIK this happens independent of <streamsilence> when you use a WASAPI output. It should work with DirectSound (at least it does for me). That's because XBMC uses WASAPI in exclusive mode so nothing else can access it.
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - jjd-uk - 2012-11-20
AE is supposed to drop the sink when no audio is active even in WASAPI exclusive mode so AE doesn't hog audio, this was added by DDDamian sometime ago.
Here is the PR https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1326
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - thrak76 - 2012-11-20
My problem is that it stopped working. <streamsilence>0</streamsilence> drops the sink (Eden style). I've been using it in this manner for months. Default behavior (<streamsilence>1</streamsilence>, or no entry) is to keep the sink active, right? That's not what i want.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AudioEngine#Advanced_settings
And just to illustrate that I have indeed been using it for months without issue...
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=131237&pid=1191494#pid1191494
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - wints - 2012-11-21
Hi don't know if i've got the wrong end of the stick here but do you mean if you leave XBMC running but then switch to windows you get no audio i.e. you browse to say youtube and play a clip you get picture but no sound but then you shut down XBMC reload the clip and then you get sound? if so i've had the same problem for a few months now using both nightlies and beta using WASAPI output. If ive misunderstood please ignore me lol, cheers
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - thrak76 - 2012-11-21
(2012-11-21, 09:06)wints Wrote: Hi don't know if i've got the wrong end of the stick here but do you mean if you leave XBMC running but then switch to windows you get no audio i.e. you browse to say youtube and play a clip you get picture but no sound but then you shut down XBMC reload the clip and then you get sound? if so i've had the same problem for a few months now using both nightlies and beta using WASAPI output. If ive misunderstood please ignore me lol, cheers
Yes, that's the behavior.
This was fixed though in AudioEngine, and the <streamsilence> tag made the fix possible. Doesn't work anymore for me though - since Beta1.
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - wints - 2012-11-21
Great lol (in a good way) its not just me, thought i had messed something up
also noticed that the amp disply keeps switching from pcm to direct whilst XBMC is loaded soon as i shut XBMC down amp disply is ok?
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - Slipx - 2012-11-21
(2012-11-21, 09:48)wints Wrote: Great lol (in a good way) its not just me, thought i had messed something up
I have the same issue
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - thrak76 - 2012-11-24
Bump, please.
If someone could just try to reproduce please?
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - Montellese - 2012-11-24
There's a bug report for it so you might wanna post your debug log et. al. there: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13593
RE: <streamsilence> tag not releasing AudioEngine - thrak76 - 2012-11-24
Thanks, Montellese. I added some info to the trac report.