[LINUX] Audio Problems with Eden Beta 3 and Ubuntu 11.10

nsviper · 2012-02-28 14:23

I actually found that enabled AC3 and DTS on the audio screen AND THEN disabling them again worked for me.

HDMI sound thru my TV now working.

Slurp · 2012-02-29 14:16

NVsniper, when you disable it, it will no passthrough the sound but encode it on your machine.

Found a soulution that worked for me:

In your /etc/pulse/default.pa file

you got a line like this #load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0,1

remove the # and change the device to your aplay -l device.

Other issue is that you are not a member of the audio group. Add your current usert tot that group and it should all work.

gaco · 2012-02-29 23:06

thank you slurp for this attempt, but unfortunately all this sink-source thing does it is preventing pulseaudio from starting at least on my rig with ubuntu 11.10

all other apps and aplay, play perfectly to any alsa device only eden has problem, all the time it says it cannot initialize audio.

Of course killing pulseaudio makes it work but it is not solution Smile

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The strange thing is, usually in such situations pasuspender worked for other applications now even that cannot help. you have to kill pulseaudio or use pulseaudio output in xbmc which is kinda flaky :/

haed · 2012-03-01 00:18

I'm not sure that my issue is the same others are having ... but anyway.
For me it looks like something has changed between 290.10 and 295.20 NVidia drivers.
With 290.10 I can have sound (LPCM) over HDMI both in menu/navigation and in videos and everything works flawlessly.
With 295.20 I can choose:
- if I configure default device in /etc/asound.conf - there is sound in menus but any attempt to play videos ends up with

Code:

10:32 T:2766629696   ERROR: Initialize - failed to open custom device plug:'hdmi:0,3' (error:Device or resource busy), retry with default hdmi:0,3

10:32 T:2766629696   ERROR: Initialize - pcm_open_lconf, alsa error: -16 - Device or resource busy

10:32 T:2766629696   ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer

- if I remove /etc/asound.conf sound in menus is gone (as expected) but it works in videos

So it looks like, in 295.20 sound device is not freed while switching from menus to video player ...

earache · 2012-03-01 01:59

ran into similar problems as in this thread a little while back trying to get HDMI audio working. what worked for me was setting both outputs to custom hdmi:1

my aplay -L output includes:

Code:

hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    HDMI Audio Output

my aplay -l output:

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC887 Analog [ALC887 Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC887 Digital [ALC887 Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

  Subdevices: 0/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

**FernetMenta** · 2012-03-01 08:33

Quote:So it looks like, in 295.20 sound device is not freed while switching from menus to video player

That's actually a problem of XBMC. It does not disable menu sound in time. Until this is fixed you can disable navigation sounds.

sfinx · 2012-03-02 22:33

FernetMenta Wrote:That's actually a problem of XBMC. It does not disable menu sound in time. Until this is fixed you can disable navigation sounds.

Thanks, that fixed my no sound issue while playing movies in Eden RC2.

Knabbel · 2012-03-02 23:30

Just solved my audio problems with my Zotac ID41

I'm running xbmcbuntu Eden beta3 and have a HT receiver connected via the optical output.

This did the trick for me:

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luger · 2012-03-03 05:55

HDMI sound had previously been working fine for a while on my Revo using XBMCbuntu. We were watching a movie and I paused it, downloaded XBMC Subtitles so I could add subtitles to the movie, restarted the computer and now I cannot get sound to work on anything I play. Any ideas on possible fixes for this? Not even sure where to start.

**FernetMenta** · 2012-03-03 09:34

Knabbel Wrote:Just solved my audio problems with my Zotac ID41

I'm running xbmcbuntu Eden beta3 and have a HT receiver connected via the optical output.

This did the trick for me:

The setting for passthrough is wrong. plughw is not an iec device and won't accept AES parameters. Try hdmi:Intel

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FernetMenta Team-XBMC Member Posts: 1,712 Joined: Jul 2010 Reputation: 37 Location: Munich	2012-03-01 08:33 Post: #36 Quote:So it looks like, in 295.20 sound device is not freed while switching from menus to video player That's actually a problem of XBMC. It does not disable menu sound in time. Until this is fixed you can disable navigation sounds.
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sfinx Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: Oct 2010 Reputation: 0 Location: The Netherlands	2012-03-02 22:33 Post: #37 FernetMenta Wrote:That's actually a problem of XBMC. It does not disable menu sound in time. Until this is fixed you can disable navigation sounds. Thanks, that fixed my no sound issue while playing movies in Eden RC2.
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Knabbel Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-03-02 23:30 Post: #38 Just solved my audio problems with my Zotac ID41 I'm running xbmcbuntu Eden beta3 and have a HT receiver connected via the optical output. This did the trick for me:
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luger Member Posts: 82 Joined: Apr 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-03-03 05:55 Post: #39 HDMI sound had previously been working fine for a while on my Revo using XBMCbuntu. We were watching a movie and I paused it, downloaded XBMC Subtitles so I could add subtitles to the movie, restarted the computer and now I cannot get sound to work on anything I play. Any ideas on possible fixes for this? Not even sure where to start.
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FernetMenta Team-XBMC Member Posts: 1,712 Joined: Jul 2010 Reputation: 37 Location: Munich	2012-03-03 09:34 Post: #40 Knabbel Wrote:Just solved my audio problems with my Zotac ID41 I'm running xbmcbuntu Eden beta3 and have a HT receiver connected via the optical output. This did the trick for me: The setting for passthrough is wrong. plughw is not an iec device and won't accept AES parameters. Try hdmi:Intel
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