ALSA error and no sound with XBMC 12.0-ALPHA4 setup
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Hi guys,

I'm having this weird problem when playing videos via my AMD Fusion setup. Im running Ubuntu minimal 11.10 on AMD Fusion E-450.
I get absolutely no sound on some videos. I believe they use passthrough. Any ideas why this could be ? Ofcourse the XBMC logs indicate a Broken pipe error with ALSA. Cant seem to figure out why this is happening.

Code:
htpc@htpc:~$ sudo aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Under XBMC I have,
Audio Output = hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3,HDMI 0
Passhthrough = HD-Audio Generic, HDMI

In the logs, I can see the following error:
Code:
13:03:26 T:140235504793344    INFO: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3"
13:03:26 T:140235504793344    INFO: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3"
13:03:26 T:140235504793344    INFO: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
13:03:26 T:140235504793344    INFO: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S16NE
13:03:26 T:140235504793344   DEBUG: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Request: periodSize 512, periods 16, bufferSize 8192
13:03:26 T:140235504793344   DEBUG: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Got: periodSize 512, periods 16, bufferSize 8192
13:03:26 T:140235504793344   DEBUG: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Setting timeout to 186 ms
13:03:26 T:140235504793344    INFO: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - ALSA Initialized:
13:03:26 T:140235504793344    INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:587:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed (-32): Broken pipe

For reference:
Code:
htpc@htpc:~$ sudo aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Digital
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Digital
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Digital
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Digital
    Hardware device with all software conversions
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