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After upgrading to os x lion from snow leopard I got error message "failed to initialize audio device" serval times when play a movie. The only solution is to reboot the mac mini (mid 2010).
If I just quit and try play music through spotify it works fine. The issue just affect xbmc.
Anyone got any idea how to try solve this annoying thing?
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garyi
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It does it all the time in snow leopard for me as well, its not a lion issue.
I just sort of live with it.
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garyi
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In case anyones interested I delved a little deeper.
I get this issue in one of two scenarios. Leaving a 5.1 audio movie. Or when there is a transition, say a 5.1 TV show that chops to a stereo credits and back to 5.1.
Whats happening is to do with core audio. XBMC usually crashes and if you open activity monitor and find the coreaudio and force quit it, then relaunch XBMC your sound is back. Or you have to reboot the mac.
Nothing else on the mac causes core audio to crash only XBMC and furthermore it does it with nightlies for me as well.
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The latest updates for Snow Leopard 10.6.10 fixed the audio issue, under Lion it still seems to exist.
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garyi
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10.6.8 is the current update for Leopard, even under appleseed you would only be looking at 10.6.9
10.6.8 does not fix the issue for me.
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I just moved to osx 10.7.2 and I got this issue.
is there a solution?
thanx a lot
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so XBMC doesn't work under lion yet? I mean with the digital audio? :-(